Jeff’s video lays out four clever ChatGPT hacks—Prompt Reversal, the 5-Minute Amplifier, the Red Team technique and Blueprint Scaffolding—to help you reverse-engineer winning prompts, spin one idea into all sorts of formats, have AI critique its own work and force it to show its reasoning before it delivers. With real, copy-and-paste examples you can use in any role or industry, these tricks have already slashed his AI workflow in half—so you’ll get solid results on the first try instead of wasting hours chasing better outputs. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

CinemaSins just dropped a new “Everything Wrong With” video skewering Thunderbolts in under 20 minutes—counting every plot hole, cheesy moment, and head-scratcher. Of course, between the snark and sin tally, they admit the movie might actually be kinda great (just don’t tell them we said that). Want more? Head over to cinemasins.com for all their channels and videos, follow @Official_CinemaSins on social, hop into the Discord or Reddit, fill out their sin-tastic poll, and if you’re feeling generous, support the team on Patreon. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Predators (2010) is a welcome reboot that ditches the glossy urban carnage of its predecessors and the limp 1990 sequel, plopping a ragtag squad of misfits into a mud-caked jungle showdown. It’s the franchise’s spiky return to form, complete with slick new twists that actually feel earned. In this Caravan of Garbage review, Mr Sunday Movies praises the film’s gritty vibes and clever tweaks—lamenting only that this crowd-pleaser never got the sequel it richly deserved. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Recently, while revising Node.js, I came across the project section Node.js roadmap on roadmap.sh(https://roadmap.sh). The first project challenge there is to create a CLI (Command-Line Interface) tool using Node.js. So,I decided to build one to refresh my basics. This post explains how CLI tools actually work under the hood and how to build one yourself from scratch. Before creating any CLI, we must understand how operating systems execute scripts. Normally, when you run a Node.js file like this: node index.js it’s Node.js that runs the file — not your operating system. The OS doesn’t automatically know how to execute JavaScript — it just knows how to run: Compiled binaries (bash, python, node, etc.) Or scripts that explicitly tell it which program should interpret them. If you want y…  ( 7 min )

Introduction Are you about to design a new project and wondering what architecture to choose? If your colleagues tell you that they watched a course on how to design microservices, everything will be under control - don't believe them. Microservices because they're cool and trendy? Think twice, while they promise scalability and independence, microservices can quickly devolve into a distributed mess of tangled dependencies, network latencies, and operational headaches, making every change debugging nightmare. Monoliths because they're more practical and straightforward? Possibly, but monoliths tend to turn into unmaintainable mess as the codebase grows, especially when multiple domains are mixed together, blurring boundaries, making every change a risky adventure across tightly coupled sys…  ( 8 min )

Ever wonder how you can leverage those built-in barcode scanner or sometimes it is called as PDA handheld scanners that runs on Android operating system in your Flutter app? You are in luck! This guide introduce you the flutter_pda_scanner_v2 package which is designed to help you to integrate into your Flutter app and operate the barcode scanner. Before we dive right in, I have to first clarify that the package is originally fork or reference it from flutter_pda_scanner and pda_scanner. Due to the lack of update and response from the predecessor, therefore I choose to separate out the repository to include certain new enhancement such as supporting Android V2 Embedding and also include a wider range of compatibility with the latest Android PDA device models. There are also other viable alt…  ( 7 min )

The OpenMicrofrontends project aims to provide a formal specification for Microfrontends provided by a server. Think of it as OpenAPI for Microfrontends. The project just released version 1.0.0 of the specification and a generator to create type-safe integration code on the Microfrontend- and the Host Application-side. Example Description: $schema: https://open-microfrontends.org/schemas/1-0-0.json openMicrofrontends: 1.0.0 servers: - url: 'http://localhost:7890' description: Local Test Server microfrontends: - name: My First Microfrontend assets: basePath: /public js: moduleSystem: ESM initial: - Microfrontend.js rendererFunctionName: startMyFirstMicrofrontend config: schema: type: object properties: welcomeMessage: type: string required: ["welcomeMessage"] default: welcomeMessage: Hello World! messages: ping: publish: true subscribe: true schema: type: object properties: ping: const: true required: ["ping"] Find out more on the project homepage.  ( 6 min )

We’ve hit a wall in the software industry—and most people are too deep in Jira tickets or conference slides to realize it. DevOps is dead. Not because the ideas were wrong, but because the implementation lost the plot. It was supposed to be about breaking down silos, accelerating delivery, and aligning engineering with outcomes. Instead, it got hijacked by process theater and rebranded operations teams. Today? “DevOps” means YAML jockeys babysitting pipelines, managing Terraform drift, and debating whether Snyk or Prisma is more “shift-left.” We turned a movement into a tooling checklist. And then there’s “vibe coding”—the aesthetic obsession with dark-mode VSCode, AI copilots, and working from a van in Patagonia. It’s cool for Twitter. It looks good in Reels. But it doesn’t ship. It doesn…  ( 7 min )

Welcome to “How to Think About Games”. This series of articles will explore the design philosophy behind different game engines. Each article’s goal is to give you an idea of where the head of a developer using the engine should be at. This won’t necessarily tell you how to use it, but each article intended to help you find if the game engine's philosophy makes sense to you, quickly helping someone who's already a developer decide if the structure is useful to them. This should help you decide what engine to use without bias, as comparison to other engines will be avoided as much as possible. This is just about how to think about games. Godot is the topic of this article. Godot is an open-source game engine. A recent contender and popular choice. It’s free, and known for being particularly…  ( 8 min )

Of all the data types you’ll encounter in your programming journey, few are as fundamental and ubiquitous as the string. From processing user input to generating AI-powered reports, text is the connective tissue of modern software. Yet, many developers, even experienced ones, only skim the surface of what Python’s strings can do. They might know how to concatenate and print, but they often miss the rich, nuanced toolkit that can elevate their code from functional to exceptional. Have you ever found yourself wrestling with cumbersome + signs to build a simple log message? Or written a convoluted function to parse a line of text when a single method call would have sufficed? You’re not alone. The path to string mastery is paved with these common hurdles. But moving beyond them is what separa…  ( 13 min )

Playwright MCP AI Agent — Final Comparison Report 📊 Performance Comparison AI Agent Simple Tests Complex Tests Error Handling VS Code Integration GitHub Copilot 90% 80% 75% 10/10 Claude AI 95% 90% 90% 8.5/10 GPT-5 / Codex 93% 87% 82% 7.5/10 🏆 Performance Winner: Claude AI 🏆 Integration Winner: GitHub Copilot Cost Comparison (Updated 2025) AI Agent Individual Cost Team (10 Users) Cost Model GitHub Copilot ~$10/month ~$100–190/month Flat Subscription Claude AI ~$20/month ~$200+/month Subscription + Usage Tier GPT-5 / Codex Usage-based (varies by tokens) Usage-based Pay-Per-Use 🏆 Cost Winner: GitHub Copilot Security Comparison AI Agent Data Privacy Enterprise Security Compliance GitHub Copilot 9/10 SOC 2, FedRAMP Excellent Claude AI 9/10 HI…  ( 7 min )

We've covered the basics and moved into intermediate techniques, but now it's time to unlock the real power of Large Language Models (LLMs). This final installment of the Prompt Engineering series dives deep into advanced strategies that turn a basic LLM into a sophisticated, autonomous reasoning agent. Prompt Engineering (Part 2) Let us start with: Chain of Thought Prompting (Step by Step Reasoning): This type of prompting shows the AI model how to reason and solve a specific problem by breaking down the problem into step that are interconnected. The previous step acts as the base for the next step. Problem: Laxmi has 34 apples. She gives 20 to Sudha who already has 10 apples. How many apples do Laxmi and Sudha have individually? Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Laxmi has 34 apples. She gave…  ( 11 min )

Most Go High Level users barely scratch the surface of what the platform can do. But what if you could go beyond what the visual automations allow? That’s where Python + the Go High Level API comes in. As your business grows, so does the complexity of your operations. You might want to: Sync data between GHL and an external CRM or Google Sheet Generate advanced reports that GHL’s dashboard doesn’t provide Trigger automations from Stripe, Notion, or Airtable Use AI to write follow-up messages and push them into GHL automatically With Python, you can interact directly with Go High Level’s API — giving you total control over data flow, automation logic, and integration. The Go High Level REST API gives developers access to almost every major function available in your dashboard — including co…  ( 9 min )

The FTSE AIM 100 Index represents a vital segment of the UK’s financial landscape. It tracks the performance of the largest 100 companies listed on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) of the London Stock Exchange. The AIM was established in 1995 to give smaller, growing businesses access to public capital while maintaining flexibility in listing requirements. Over time, this segment has become a key platform for innovative companies seeking investment, offering opportunities for both investors and entrepreneurs alike. The FTSE AIM 100 Index includes some of the most dynamic, fast-growing, and high-potential businesses across sectors like technology, healthcare, natural resources, and financial services. Understanding the structure, composition, and movement of this index can provide va…  ( 9 min )

The Best LLM and AI Orchestration Toolkits for Your Stack When OpenAI launched GPT-4o and set the standard for multimodal models, the AI race accelerated. Google responded with Gemini 2.5 Pro, offering a context window of a million tokens, while Anthropic released Claude 3.7 Sonnet, boosting reasoning capabilities. Meta also entered the scene with Llama 4 Maverick, proving that open-source licenses no longer mean second-tier quality. Costs are trending down as well - Mistral Medium 3 undercuts larger names at just $0.40 per million input tokens. But choosing the right large language model (LLM) is only half of the challenge. Deploying these models in real-world systems requires a strong focus on orchestration. Businesses must manage strict latency budgets, control GPU costs, meet safety …  ( 9 min )

From Localhost to Live: Sharing Django Projects Seamlessly Lightning Developer ・ Nov 10 #webdev #django #pinggy #tutorial  ( 5 min )

For years, BSS (Business Support Systems) in telecom have been the least exciting part of the stack — reliable but rigid. AI isn’t just about predictive analytics anymore — it’s becoming the brain of next-gen BSS. The catch? Integrating AI into legacy BSS is messy. Data lives across silos. Existing workflows aren’t built for feedback loops. Real-time policy changes can break downstream integrations. That’s where developers come in — to make the architecture AI-ready: Decouple logic into microservices Use APIs for dynamic orchestration Layer in ML models that learn from transaction patterns Automate routine configuration through event-driven pipelines At TelcoEdge, for example, teams are experimenting with AI-based orchestration layers that sit between the BSS and the network layer — automating decisions like usage optimization, billing adjustments, and SLA enforcement. They shared a deeper look in their recent piece: AI-Powered BSS: Can Automation Really Turn Telecom into a Growth Business? It’s an interesting read if you’re exploring how to merge AI workflows with telco-grade reliability. Would love to hear from other developers working with telecom APIs or automation frameworks — How would you build a BSS that can learn, adapt, and self-optimize?  ( 6 min )

Looking for your next role in JavaScript? Whether you specialize in React, Angular, Node, TypeScript or vanilla JS, this board has you covered—with thousands of remote-friendly job listings worldwide. 🔗 javascript.jobs  ( 6 min )

I’ve spent the last few weeks living with two of the most talked-about AI coding assistants, Cursor Composer 1 and Cognition SWE 1.5, inside real multi-service projects connected through Composio’s Rube MCP gateway. Not toy apps. Not single-file demos. Actual workflows: browser extensions, API connections, and live data running through real services. Here’s what stood out. Cursor’s Secret Strength: Flow Cursor still nails what it set out to do: get you to a working prototype fast. But when the project grew past one file, that same speed started working against it. Quick fixes piled up. Error handling got messy. The MVP was done, but scaling it felt like untangling a ball of wires. SWE 1.5’s Advantage: Structure SWE 1.5 took longer to reach the same MVP, but the code it wrote looked like so…  ( 7 min )

Docker containers are lightweight and portable, but their dynamic nature makes monitoring challenging. Containers start, stop, and move between hosts constantly—you need visibility into their resource usage and performance. This guide explains how to monitor Docker containers using the OpenTelemetry Collector with the Docker Stats receiver. It covers setting up the Collector (either directly or with Docker Compose), collecting container metrics, and exporting them to your monitoring backend. Monitoring Docker containers is a key part of ensuring that containerized applications run reliably and perform efficiently. Here's why it matters: Performance Optimization: Identify resource bottlenecks and optimize container performance before they impact users. By tracking CPU, memory, and I/O metri…  ( 19 min )

A Practical Guide to AI Voice Agent Observability: Debugging Latency with VideoSDK Traces Chaitrali Kakde ・ Nov 10 #ai #agents #voiceagent #opensource  ( 6 min )

This is a submission for the Agentic Postgres Challenge with Tiger Data Now I Can't Sleep 😭🐯 My coffee is cold. My brain is fried. 18 days back → “just another Postgres” Today → 5 angry AI ghosts shout in my laptop: “USE BRIN INDEX!!” “NO!! GIN BETTER!!” “FORK ME NOW!!” “ZERO COPY OR I CRY!!” “ROLLBACK MY LIFE!!” All this magic = Tiger Data Same team that made TimescaleDB (Toyota, Mistral use it) Made Agentic Postgres → database born for AI Free plan → unlimited forks, super fast search, zero cost Just type: tiger create service boom → done in 8 seconds No card. No joke. Link → https://tigerdata.com Made 5 copies of same database in 2 seconds Gave each AI its own copy to break Best one wins → click merge Others → delete → gone forever Total cost = ₹0 Future not coming. Tiger Data already forked it at 3 AM. I still hear “GIN!!” when I close eyes. You also try → https://tigerdata.com Break something today 😈  ( 6 min )

OpenTelemetry enables comprehensive monitoring of Django applications by automatically collecting telemetry data including request and response times, database query performance, and custom metrics. By integrating OpenTelemetry, you can capture distributed traces and metrics, then export this data to various observability backends for analysis and visualization. Django is an open-source, high-level web framework written in Python. It follows the Model-View-Template (MVT) architectural pattern and provides a robust set of tools and features that simplify and accelerate web application development. Django is designed to promote clean, maintainable code and follows the "Don't Repeat Yourself" (DRY) principle, emphasizing code reusability and reducing redundancy. OpenTelemetry is an open-sourc…  ( 14 min )

OpenTelemetry database SQL provides libraries and tools for instrumenting SQL databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Microsoft SQL Server to collect telemetry data. database/sql package provides a lightweight and idiomatic interface to row-oriented databases in Golang. It supports most popular relational DBMS via 3-rd party drivers. This article will teach you how to monitor database/sql performance using OpenTelemetry observability framework. OpenTelemetry is an open-source observability framework that aims to standardize and simplify the collection, processing, and export of telemetry data from applications and systems. OpenTelemetry supports multiple programming languages and platforms, making it suitable for a wide range of applications and environments. OpenTelemetry enables develop…  ( 7 min )

Last Friday, I had the excitement of attending the first-ever Umbraco in the City conference in Manchester—with a twist. My nine-month-old was my plus-one for the day, and honestly, I wasn't sure how it would go. Would I catch any of the talks? Would the baby cooperation gods smile upon me? TLDR: They did. And the Umbraco community showed up in the most wonderful way. Before I dive into the excellent technical talks I saw, I just want to say a really heart-felt thanks to the organising team who created a genuinely inclusive space. Bringing a baby to a tech conference isn't exactly standard operating procedure, but the organisers made it work without batting an eyelid. From the welcoming atmosphere to the practical accommodations, they showed that "friendly" isn't just a word we use—it's a…  ( 8 min )

In the fast-evolving AI landscape, infrastructure innovation matters as much as model design. Traditional centralized cloud systems have powered years of AI growth—but as workloads scale, developers face challenges around cost, scalability, and control. 1.1 Cost and Resource Efficiency 1.2 Data Sovereignty and Privacy 1.3 Scalability and Latency A decentralized compute platform functions as an on-chain marketplace where compute resources are listed, priced, and allocated programmatically. Peer-to-peer compute provisioning via blockchain coordination. Transparent usage verification through smart contracts. Token-based settlement layer for low-friction payments. Example networks Akash Network — GPU marketplace built on Cosmos SDK. Acurast — leverages mobile devices for distributed computatio…  ( 8 min )

Hey devs 👋 I’m Dhruv Joshi, a technical writer and developer who spends a lot of time helping beginners ship their first real-world projects. If you’ve just started coding, you’ve probably asked yourself: “If I use ChatGPT or GitHub Copilot… am I cheating?” Short answer: you’re not cheating if you’re still learning, thinking, and taking responsibility for your code. You are cheating yourself if you stop doing those things. In this post, I’ll show you how to use an AI coding assistant for beginners (like ChatGPT or Copilot) in a healthy way — more like a pair programmer than a shortcut machine. When we learned to code, the rules sounded like this: “Write every line yourself.” “Don’t copy-paste solutions from the internet.” “Real devs debug without help.” (Spoiler: they don’t.) Now there’s …  ( 11 min )

I'm writing this blog as a participant in Cloud Run Hackathon by Google Cloud For the past several years, I’ve been self-funding my startup ideas by participating in hackathons that help me bring those ideas to life. Keeping tabs on the hackathons all the time to find which one would be the right fit for my startup ideas has become bit tedious. Finding relevant hackathons on Devpost is tedious: Keyword search misses semantically similar opportunities No personalized recommendations Manual filtering through hundreds of listings No notifications for new matching hackathons I built Hackathon.fund, an AI-powered platform that helps startup founders discover relevant hackathons on Devpost using semantic search. The entire application runs on Google Cloud Run - 11 deployments handling everythin…  ( 12 min )

As AI Voice agents evolve into complex, multi-modal systems handling real-time speech, video, and reasoning, performance observability becomes crucial. Even small latency spikes can break conversational flow. VideoSDK’s AI Voice Agent Observability tools give developers fine-grained visibility into every step of an agent’s pipeline from message ingestion to final response making latency debugging straightforward. What Is AI Agent Observability? AI Agent Observability is the ability to monitor, trace, and analyze the behavior of an AI system across multiple layers including input processing, reasoning, model calls, and response generation. Modern AI agents often integrate: Speech-to-Text (STT) for transcription Large Language Models (LLMs) for reasoning Text-to-Speech (TTS) for responses …  ( 9 min )

How to Deposit Skins on Clash.gg: Step-by-Step Guide for 2026 Depositing your CS2 or CSGO skins on Clash.gg is simpler than it seems—once you know the right steps. Whether you’re new to trading or an experienced player, understanding how to transfer your skins safely and efficiently is key to making the most of your balance. This guide breaks down everything you need to know in a clear, step-by-step way. You’ll learn the requirements, best practices, and quick fixes for common issues, so you can deposit your skins with confidence and focus on enjoying the Clash.gg experience. Here’s a fast comparison of deposit options so you can choose what fits your plan and timing. Deposit Method What You Need Processing Time Typical Limits Skins Verified Clash.gg + linked Steam (inventory Pub…  ( 9 min )

Introduction: Beyond the Limits of Supervised Learning Imagine a world where AI not only mimics human summaries but also exceeds them in quality. For years, Natural Language Processing (NLP) has relied on Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) to train language models to replicate human-written summaries. While this method works, it has flaws and treats all errors the same, whether they are minor phrasing issues or major inaccuracies. It also depends on metrics like ROUGE (Recall-Oriented Understudy for Gisting Evaluation), which often do not match human judgment. Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) is a groundbreaking technique developed by OpenAI (Stiennon et al., 2020). By focusing on human preferences instead of fixed examples, RLHF creates summaries that frequently outperform th…  ( 8 min )

TL;DR AWS Cost Explorer and Azure Advisor are reactive dashboards—they show you data, but don't act on it Manual FinOps fails because engineers lack time, context, and confidence to delete resources The average mid-sized company wastes $35,000-$50,000/year on zombie resources AI-powered cost governance with confidence-scored recommendations solves decision paralysis Real example: A growing startup cut $12,400/month using automated tagging and AI analysis It's 9 PM on a Thursday. Your CTO is staring at the AWS billing dashboard. Again. $52,000 this month. Up from $41,000 last quarter. She knows where the money is going—sort of. Cost Explorer shows EC2 is 38% of the bill. RDS another 27%. Load balancers, S3, data transfer... it's all there in beautiful, color-coded graphs. But here's the …  ( 14 min )

Jeff Su breaks down four killer ChatGPT tricks—Prompt Reversal, the 5-Minute Amplifier, the Red Team Technique, and Blueprint Scaffolding—that let you stop the endless prompt tweak cycle and get better results faster. By reverse-engineering your best prompts, turning one piece of content into multiple formats, having AI self-critique, and forcing it to map out its logic first, you can literally cut your AI workflow in half. Each hack comes with real-world demos you can copy today, plus free resources like an ebook, blog post, and course waitlist to supercharge your setup. Whether you’re writing marketing copy, coding, or just trying to stay sane at work, these tips work across any role or industry. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has become the go-to architecture for building AI applications that need access to current, domain-specific information. However, moving from a prototype RAG system to a production-ready solution involves addressing numerous challenges around accuracy, latency, cost, compliance, and maintainability. At QLoop Technologies, we've deployed RAG systems handling over 10 million queries per month across various industries. This post shares a battle-tested playbook to build RAG systems that work at scale. Clean, high-quality data and adaptive chunking are foundational. Use hybrid retrieval (dense + sparse) with reranking. Optimize vector DB with caching, sharding, and index tuning. Manage context window dynamically to reduce cost. Monitor continuously: latency…  ( 10 min )

TL;DR Cinema Sins just slammed through Everything Wrong With Thunderbolts (The New Avengers) in 20 Minutes Or Less, pointing out every nit-pick and plot hole in rapid fire. The vid description doubles as a promo strip—links to their main site, YouTube channels, link tree, a fun poll, Patreon pitch, Discord, Reddit, Instagram and TikTok shout-outs—complete with a writers’ roll call for extra credit. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Predators swings the franchise back to its roots after a lackluster ’90 sequel and two Alien vs Predator crossovers, dropping a ragtag crew into a muddy jungle face-off. It blends classic thrills with fresh twists that make it Mr Sunday Movies’ favorite “Caravan of Garbage” installment. Too bad we never got a proper sequel—here’s hoping those Predator vibes make a roaring comeback soon! Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

It's time to update from Jest 29 to 30 for me. They changed the snapshot files: the link in the header changed. I find short-links disturbing anyway. - // Jest Snapshot v1, https://goo.gl/fbAQLP + // Jest Snapshot v1, https://jestjs.io/docs/snapshot-testing Then they removed some deprecated matcher aliases. (expect(fn).toBeCalled() → expect(fn).toHaveBeenCalled()) It took a while but was manageable. Then I got really confused when I found out some modules are not mocked anymore. As it turns out jest.mock("./path/to/module") is case-sensitive now. Jest updated JSDOM from Version 20 to 26. It added show-stopping CSS-bugs for me (el.style.boxShadow = undefined became el.style.boxShadow === "undefined" instead of the expected el.style.boxShadow === ""), fixed them in Version 27 and introduced…  ( 7 min )

The Birth of Illusion In every organization that fears exposure, truth becomes an intruder – and illusion, a cherished guest. The winds of Automora carried the scent of burnt parchment. The Assessment had ended weeks ago, yet its shadow lingered like smoke that refused to dissipate. Scrolls filled with numbers – metrics, maturity levels, ratings – had been rolled, sealed, and placed in gilded cabinets for the Hyena Commissioner to parade at council. But behind those cabinets lay wreckage, disbelief, and the sour odor of panic. No one accepted the verdict. potential!" The court nodded vigorously, repeating the phrase like a sacred chant. But in the side halls, whispers coiled: biased auditors, unfair sampling, unrealistic criteria. Fear stalked the marble floors with padded feet. Among the …  ( 16 min )

By Oliver | November 7, 2025 Imagine you're building a new mobile app for a bank. Before launching it to real customers, you need to test it thoroughly. But here's the catch: you can't use real customer data for testing - that would be a privacy nightmare and potentially illegal. You also can't just make up random numbers and names because your app needs to handle realistic scenarios. This is where synthetic data comes in. It's like having a movie set instead of real location. Everything looks authentic, but it's all carefully constructed and completely safe to use. That's exactly what I built: DataGen - a Python library that creates realistic synthetic datasets at the click of a button. Think of DataGen as a digital factory for fake-but-realistic data. Just like a toy factory can produce …  ( 12 min )

Back in 2018 I wrote a post about connecting Hanami (then 1.x) and Pagy gem together. My verdict was not that favorable. I had to write quite a lot of glue code to make it work and perhaps the worst thing was that I had to pass the request object to the template to make it work. However, things have changed since then: Hanami is now 2.3, its persistence layer is more mature, based on ROM and allows to fall back to almost-bare-Sequel via relations. Pagy released version 43 this week. It's advertised as a complete rewrite of its internals and APIs. We needed a leap version to unequivocally signaling that it's not just a major version: it's a complete redesign of the legacy code at all levels, usage and API included. There's no better time to take it for another spin then! I quickly spun up a…  ( 7 min )

The Problem We built an admin area for a sales company that included a custom CRM, marketing tools, content management, and internal developer utilities. Different employees had different responsibilities: Managers handled customer calls and notes Analysts worked with marketing reports Accountants dealt with invoices Administrators oversaw everything Developers maintained internal tools The business needed an authorization system that enforced access strictly according to employee responsibilities. When employees left the company, we also needed to revoke their access without deleting accounts and associated historical data. Our system needed to: Support different access levels for employees Provide admin-managed role assignments Preserve user accounts Allow revoking access when an emplo…  ( 9 min )

I still remember the day I met Flexbox. Not the “oh wow this is cool” kind of meeting, but the “why is nothing aligning right?!” kind. That was the moment I realized: understanding Flexbox isn’t about memorizing properties, it’s about changing how you think about layout. I used to picture HTML elements like rigid boxes, stacked on top of each other, bumping into margins, floating aimlessly. Then one day, while debugging yet another layout mess, someone said: “Stop fighting the boxes. Let them flex.” It sounded poetic… and confusing. But when I applied display: flex; for the first time, it was like the page suddenly listened. My boxes started behaving like a team, aligning, wrapping, adjusting naturally without me wrestling with float or endless position: absolute;. That’s when Fle…  ( 8 min )

Key Takeaways Auth is Not Enough: Getting an OAuth token (Pillar 1) is just the first step. Production Needs Guardrails: You must build Granular Control (Pillar 2) with patterns like Brokered Credentials to prevent security risks. Scalability Requires an Engine: A reliable action layer (Pillar 3) with a Unified API and managed retries is essential to move from prototype to production. You've built a powerful AI agent. Using a framework like LangChain or CrewAI, you've designed a sophisticated workflow that can reason, plan, and execute tasks. There's just one problem: Your agent is trapped in a sandbox, unable to interact with the real world. To be useful, it needs access to user-specific tools like Google Calendar, Salesforce, or Jira. This is where you hit the "Authentication Wall". …  ( 16 min )

For years, I thought “market makers” were mythical creatures - hidden behind high-frequency walls, moving prices with mysterious algorithms and caffeine-infused reflexes. Then I realized they were just… traders like us, but with better APIs and more patience for spreadsheet chaos. When I started as a retail trader, I chased pumps, blamed latency, and prayed to the order-book gods. Every missed fill felt personal. The turning point came when I discovered Market Making Programs - and realized liquidity is the real alpha. Binance’s setup was my entry point. I loved the 0% maker fees on selected pairs - and yes, the extra 0.005% rebate for top performers didn’t hurt. Their API performance reviews were a reality check: it’s one thing to “think” you’re fast, another to actually see latency logs …  ( 7 min )

Hello! Today we will talk about authorization support via OAuth 2.0 Device Authorization Flow implemented in Tantor Postgres 17.5.0 DBMS. This is a modern and secure access method that allows applications to request access to PostgreSQL on behalf of the user through an external identification and access control provider, such as Keycloak, which is especially convenient for cloud environments and microservice architectures (the feature will also be available in PostgreSQL 18). In this article, we'll take a step-by-step look at configuring OAuth authorization in PostgreSQL using Keycloak: configure Keycloak, prepare PostgreSQL, write an OAuth token validator in PostgreSQL, and verify successful authorization via psql using Device Flow. Support for authorization via OAuth 2.0 Device Authoriza…  ( 35 min )

I Built a Free Directory for Black Friday SaaS Deals (And You Should Use It) Black Friday is coming up fast, and if you're like me, you're tired of missing out on great software deals because they're scattered across Twitter, Reddit, and random newsletters. So I built blackfridayappdeals.com — a simple, free directory where you can find all the best Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals for apps and SaaS products in one place. Why I Built This Every year, I watch indie makers and SaaS founders offer incredible Black Friday discounts — 50% off, lifetime deals, you name it. But there's no central place to discover them all. Buyers spend hours hunting deals across social media. Sellers struggle to get visibility for their offers. It felt like a problem worth solving. What's Different It's completely free. No paywalls, no sign-ups, no BS. Just deals. It's organized. Filter by category — productivity, developer tools, design, marketing, AI tools, and more. Search by app name or discount type. It's community-driven. Anyone can submit their deal using a simple Google Form. I manually review each one to keep quality high. For Founders: Get Your Deal Featured If you're running a Black Friday or Cyber Monday promotion for your app or SaaS: Go to blackfridayappdeals.com Click "Submit Deal" Fill out the form with your app details and discount That's it. It's free, it takes 2 minutes, and you'll get exposure to thousands of potential customers actively looking for deals. Deals go live on November 14th, and the site will stay active through Cyber Monday. For Shoppers: Bookmark It Now Whether you're a developer, designer, entrepreneur, or just someone who loves productivity tools, bookmark blackfridayappdeals.com now. The countdown is on. Black Friday 2025 is November 28th. Let's make this the easiest Black Friday shopping season yet. TL;DR: Free directory of Black Friday SaaS deals. Founders can submit for free. Shoppers get everything in one place. Win-win. Check it out here: blackfridayappdeals.com  ( 7 min )

Executive compensation is evolving beyond traditional financial benchmarks. As sustainability moves to the forefront of corporate strategy, companies are increasingly aligning leadership incentives with ESG goals. According to the ISS Executive Compensation Analytics (ECA) database, the share of firms integrating ESG metrics into executive performance reviews rose from just 3% in 2010 to over 30% in 20211. This shift signals a growing recognition that executive compensations are intrinsically linked to environmental and social accountability. The Evolving Landscape of ESG-Linked Executive Compensation However, adoption patterns vary by geography. ESG-linked pay is more prevalent in jurisdictions with stronger sustainability mandates and disclosure requirements. In the European Union, over …  ( 12 min )

I Got Tired of Copy-Pasting Git Commands From ChatGPT, So I Built This Arjun Varma ・ Nov 10 #ai #git #productivity #showdev  ( 5 min )

In this tutorial, you will learn how to monitor your Hetzner Cloud infrastructure using AWS CloudWatch. This integration allows you to centralize your monitoring across both Hetzner and AWS resources in one unified dashboard. By the end of this tutorial, you will have set up automated metric collection from your Hetzner Cloud Load Balancers and Servers, with all metrics automatically pushed to AWS CloudWatch at regular intervals. This is particularly useful if your organization already uses AWS CloudWatch for monitoring and wants to include Hetzner Cloud resources in the same observability platform. We'll use a Terraform module that leverages AWS Step Functions to periodically fetch metrics from the Hetzner Cloud API and store them in CloudWatch. This serverless approach means there are no…  ( 12 min )

Introduction Compliance reporting has become a critical function for organizations across all industries. It applies for both small startups or multinational corporations and understanding and implementing proper compliance reporting practices entails protecting your business, maintaining stakeholder trust, and ensuring long-term sustainability. Compliance reporting refers to the systematic process of documenting and communicating how an organization adheres to various laws, regulations, standards, and internal policies. It serves as tangible proof that your business operates within legal boundaries and follows industry best practices. Non-compliance can result in hefty fines, legal penalties, reputational damage, and even business closure. Conversely, robust compliance reporting can enha…  ( 9 min )

Nova Twins, London’s unapologetic rock duo Amy Love and Georgia South, blew the Tiny Desk stage wide open with mega-distorted bass lines, hip-hop beats, and raspy, in-your-face vocals. They kicked things off with “Cleopatra,” a straight-talking “haters to the curb” anthem, powered through the shadow-chasing “Monsters,” and even ducked under the desk to geek out on their spaceship-sized pedalboards (complete with a dedicated pedal cam). Adding a supernatural twist to “Hummingbird” with a Harp Blaster mic, they wrapped up by cranking the volume all the way up on the heavy-rock showdown “Choose Your Fighter,” proving nice, polite girls can go full throttle too. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Jeff Su’s video spills four ChatGPT power moves that literally cut his AI workload in half: reverse-engineer your best prompts, crank out multiple content formats in five minutes, get ChatGPT to red-team its own work, and force it to show its outline before writing. Each trick comes with real examples you can steal and use today—no more endless prompt tweaking. For extra gold, snag the free HubSpot eBook, check out Jeff’s deep-dive blog post and AI course, or plug into his Notion Command Center. It’s everything you need to supercharge your workflow and reclaim hours of your day. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Ever wondered why sometimes two seemingly identical Integer objects in Java are actually the same object in memory, and sometimes they aren’t? Welcome to the fascinating world of Integer Caching, a small but clever optimization built right into the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) that quietly boosts performance and saves memory. Integer Caching? In Java, objects like Integer, Long, Byte, and Character are immutable wrapper classes around primitive types. Whenever you use autoboxing, such as: Integer a = 100; // autoboxing of int to Integer the JVM doesn’t always create a new Integer object. Instead, it might reuse an existing one, thanks to Integer caching. By default, Java maintains a cache of Integer objects for values between -128 and +127. So when you write: Integer x = 100; …  ( 7 min )

Hey! My friend and I are building a free coding school that's entirely project-based, self-paced, and emphasizes skills that we think are important in the AI era (e.g. system design). It assumes no coding experience. We're building this because we think a program should exist that's as affordable as self-studying, nearly as rigorous as a university, and as practical as a coding bootcamp. A bit about us: I was the first engineer at a five person startup, and my friend was the youngest SDE II at AWS SageMaker. We’re friends from UC Berkeley and recently went through YC together. Full disclosure: we’ve only released the beginning of the first project so far. If you’re just starting your coding journey, we’d love for you to try it. If you’re more experienced, feel free to sign up for updates. Also, we’ll be hanging in Discord if you need support/guidance :) Check it out here: https://vectorschool.ai/  ( 6 min )

In this post, we’ll learn how to add theme switching in Flutter — letting users toggle between Light Mode, Dark Mode, and System Default Theme. We’ll use the Provider package to manage the state and a simple Switch widget to control the theme dynamically. We’ll create: A custom theme file with lightTheme and darkTheme A ThemeProvider using ChangeNotifier A simple UI with a Switch and an ElevatedButton to toggle themes Create a new file named app_theme.dart. This file will hold both the light and dark theme configurations. import 'package:flutter/material.dart'; class AppTheme { // Light Theme static final ThemeData lightTheme = ThemeData( brightness: Brightness.light, colorScheme: const ColorScheme.light( primary: Color(0xFF0066FF), secondary: Color(0xFF00C853),…  ( 8 min )

Everything Wrong With Thunderbolts* (The New Avengers) In 20 Minutes Or Less CinemaSins just dropped a 20-minute rundown of every “sin” in Thunderbolts (aka The New Avengers)—and, plot twist, the hosts actually admit they kind of liked it. Expect their trademark sarcastic commentary, quickfire jokes, and plenty of nitpicks… but maybe a dash of genuine praise, too. As usual, they’re hyping up more content and community fun: hit up their website for other channels, join the sinful poll, support them on Patreon, and follow the writers on Twitter and Insta. Plus, you can find them on Discord, Reddit, TikTok, and more for all things CinemaSins. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

SQLite metadata refers to information about the database structure itself—the schema, tables, columns, indexes, views, triggers, and constraints that define how your data is organized. SQLite provides two main approaches for accessing metadata: PRAGMA commands and the sqlite_master system table. PRAGMA is a special command in SQLite used to: Query and modify database configuration Retrieve metadata about database schema Control SQLite engine behavior Unlike standard SQL commands, PRAGMA commands are SQLite-specific and provide direct access to database internals. One of the most commonly used PRAGMA commands for retrieving metadata is table_info(), which returns detailed information about the columns in a table. PRAGMA table_info(table_name); This will return a result set with the followi…  ( 8 min )

What is the advantage of this script? You define the path to the database and the collection name in advance. Every file has an automatically generated name (the date) You see when you did the backup directly (the date in the file name, You get a notification for your desktop You can do it regularly (cron job) – every day if you want The output is a JSON file #!/bin/bash clear echo "------------------------------------------" echo "Backup of MongoDB" echo "------------------------------------------" #create the date for the file name datum=$(date +%x | tr -d '/') BACKUP_PATH="$HOME/Linux_PC/Datenbankmanagementsysteme/MongoDB/backups" DB_NAME="Artikel" COLLECTION_NAME="Nachrichten" OUTPUT_FILENAME="${COLLECTION_NAME}_${datum}.json" #hello to the user with the current date - echo "Hello" ${USER^} today is $datum #checking the disc space on /home/sven freespace=$(df -h /home/sven | awk 'NR==2 {print $4}') echo "Available space in home directory: $freespace" #creating the backup of the database: artikel in the collection Nachrichten with the current date echo "Backup MongoDB Collection ${COLLECTION_NAME}" mongoexport --db "$DB_NAME" --collection "$COLLECTION_NAME" --type=json --out="$BACKUP_PATH/$OUTPUT_FILENAME" #notification that the backups were made notify-send "MongoDB Backup completed"  ( 6 min )

By the end of 2025, the competition in AI models will intensify. The upcoming releases of GPT 5.1 and Gemini 3.0 Pro are undoubtedly a major focus. The looming releases are both a signal of competition and a marketing tactic for companies to preemptively seize market share. Gemini 3.0 has released code signals on Vertex: gemini-3-pro-preview-11-2025 indicating that it is already partially usable(How to get started with the Gemini 3 Pro Preview). Now let’s examine what GPT-5.1 will bring developers. OpenAI’s model train keeps moving fast. Over the past few days a stream of small but consistent signals — code artifacts in third-party repos, model names visible in provider lists, and investigator write-ups — have pointed to a next step in the GPT-5 era: a GPT-5.1 family that includes a flagsh…  ( 11 min )

Introduction Data is the fuel that powers every dashboard, every insight, and every decision made in Tableau. Regardless of how visually compelling a dashboard is, its value ultimately depends on the quality, freshness, and integrity of the underlying data. Today, organizations generate data across multiple platforms—spreadsheets, cloud applications, enterprise databases, CRMs, ERPs, and even real-time web APIs. A modern BI tool must therefore do more than visualize data; it must connect to it wherever it lives. The Foundation: Tableau’s Data Connectivity Landscape Connecting Tableau to Google Sheets Working with Google Sheets: What You Need to Know B. Live Updates Without Manual Refresh C. Handling Errors in Sheets …Tableau cannot import it. Managing and Preparing Data Inside Tab…  ( 10 min )

One SQL query to traverse entire hierarchies. No loops, no N+1 queries, no tears. Just elegant recursive CTEs. Your product manager walks up to your desk with that look. You know the one. "Hey, can you pull all products in the 'Electronics' category? Oh, and include all subcategories too. And their subcategories. You know, the whole tree." Your internal monologue: "Oh no. Not the N+1 problem again." Your options: Multiple database queries - SELECT children, then grandchildren, then great-grandchildren... (Slow. So slow.) Complex application logic - Recursive functions that hit the database repeatedly (N+1 hell) Nested loops - Building the tree in code with increasingly unreadable logic (Spaghetti) Or... you could write one elegant SQL query with a recursive CTE and go grab coffee while you…  ( 15 min )

Have you ever figured out how much time and money your company spends in a year delivering repetitive answers to customer questions? According to a Gartner report, poor customer service can impact up to 30% of your revenue opportunities, primarily caused by slow response time or limited availability. Traditional customer service call centers and service desks often face challenges with scalability and quality to keep up with the growing expectation of 24/7 personalization and support, leaving customers frustrated and businesses at risk. This is exactly where AI Agents in Customer Services are changing this narrative. Unlike the basic chatbots of the past, new generations of AI-enabled service agents not only understand intent, but can even produce personalized, contextual responses with pr…  ( 13 min )

Have you ever figured out how much time and money your company spends in a year delivering repetitive answers to customer questions? According to a Gartner report, poor customer service can impact up to 30% of your revenue opportunities, primarily caused by slow response time or limited availability. Traditional customer service call centers and service desks often face challenges with scalability and quality to keep up with the growing expectation of 24/7 personalization and support, leaving customers frustrated and businesses at risk. This is exactly where AI Agents in Customer Services are changing this narrative. Unlike the basic chatbots of the past, new generations of AI-enabled service agents not only understand intent, but can even produce personalized, contextual responses with pr…  ( 13 min )

yourcast! - personalized AI podcast app rohan ・ Nov 9 #ai #googlecloud #agents #podcast  ( 6 min )

In an era where smartphones dominate nearly every aspect of our lives, businesses can no longer afford to treat mobile design as an afterthought. Whether you’re building a customer self-service platform, an employee intranet, or a B2B partner portal, adopting a mobile-first design strategy is no longer optional — it’s essential. Mobile-first design is a web design philosophy that prioritizes the mobile user experience from the very beginning of the development process. Instead of designing for desktops and then scaling down, designers start with the smallest screen (mobile) and progressively enhance the design for larger screens. Why Mobile-First Design Matters More Than Ever The Majority of Users Are Mobile Improved User Experience (UX) Better SEO and Higher Google Rankings Faster Loading Times and Better Performance Enhanced Accessibility and Inclusivity Scalability for Future Growth Increased Engagement and Retention How to Implement Mobile-First Portal Design Effectively Start with User Research Define Core Functionalities Use Responsive Design Principles Optimize Performance Prioritize Touch and Gesture Controls Test Across Devices and Platforms Continuously Improve Through Analytics Real-World Examples of Mobile-First Portals In today’s mobile-driven economy, a mobile-first portal design isn’t just a design choice — it’s a business strategy. It ensures that your platform reaches users wherever they are, delivers seamless experiences, and remains future-ready in a rapidly evolving digital landscape. By prioritizing mobile from the start, you’ll create a portal that’s fast, intuitive, and accessible — setting the foundation for higher engagement, stronger customer relationships, and long-term business growth. If you’re planning to develop a responsive, high-performing business portal, partnering with an experienced web portal development company can help you design mobile-first experiences that truly stand out.  ( 10 min )

Build Your MVP: Find the Right Technical Co-Founders Bringing your minimum viable product (MVP) to life requires more than just a brilliant idea. The backbone of any successful tech startup often lies in its technical co-founders and early team members. Here's how you can find the right partners for your journey. First, clearly outline what specific skills and expertise are required to develop your MVP. Do you need someone with front-end experience, a back-end wizard, or perhaps both? Knowing what you're looking for will make it easier to identify potential co-founders who can fill these gaps. Platforms like LeKlub-AI can be invaluable in your search. By using sophisticated AI matching capabilities, LeKlub-AI connects entrepreneurs with potential co-founders whose skills and goals align with yours, saving you time and increasing your chances of finding a perfect match. Engage with your network and attend industry events to meet potential co-founders. When you find someone promising, communicate openly about your vision, values, and expectations. Look for compatibility not just in skills but also in work ethic and long-term goals. Finding the right technical co-founder is crucial for building a strong foundation for your MVP. By defining your needs, leveraging AI matching, and actively networking, you can assemble a team that drives your startup towards success. Ready to find your perfect technical co-founder? Try LeKlub-AI today and take the first step towards building your dream team.  ( 6 min )

In the early 2000s, listening to music online wasn’t as easy as it is today. People still downloaded songs to their computers or MP3 players to enjoy them offline. Then came YouTube, which became a gem of music videos, remixes, live performances, and rare audio tracks. However, YouTube had one big drawback, you needed an internet connection to play anything. That led people to wonder, “How can I save this YouTube video on my device?” In the beginning, downloading videos or songs from YouTube was complicated. But that changed when websites like YT5s appeared. Suddenly, anyone could just paste a YouTube link, click a button, and download a song within seconds. No more software needed and no long processes, just quick, easy downloads for everyone. These simple tools made video and music downl…  ( 8 min )

Question The Nautilus DevOps team is strategizing the migration of a portion of their infrastructure to the AWS cloud. Recognizing the scale of this undertaking, they have opted to approach the migration in incremental steps rather than as a single massive transition. To achieve this, they have segmented large tasks into smaller, more manageable units. This granular approach enables the team to execute the migration in gradual phases, ensuring smoother implementation and minimizing disruption to ongoing operations. By breaking down the migration into smaller tasks, the Nautilus DevOps team can systematically progress through each stage, allowing for better control, risk mitigation, and optimization of resources throughout the migration process. Requirements: Name of the key pair should b…  ( 7 min )

Even with Angular 20’s latest improvements, many apps still lag, freeze, or load slowly. Angular’s default change detection checks everything on each event or async update. ✅ Switch to ChangeDetectionStrategy.OnPush to update components only when inputs change. @Component({ selector: 'app-profile', templateUrl: './profile.component.html', changeDetection: ChangeDetectionStrategy.OnPush }) export class ProfileComponent { @Input() user!: User; } Why it works: In Angular 20, Signals make state updates more predictable and efficient. Instead of relying on RxJS for simple UI changes: user = signal(null); loadUser() { this.user.set({ name: 'Mridu', age: 28 }); } Why it’s faster: Don’t load what you don’t need. { path: 'dashboard', loadChildren: () => import('./das…  ( 8 min )

I recently built an end-to-end appointment reminder workflow using n8n that helps businesses ensure customers never miss their scheduled meetings. Here’s how it works: This workflow saves valuable time, improves communication consistency, and delivers a seamless reminder experience — all without human intervention. Always fascinating to see how automation and AI can streamline everyday operations so elegantly. ⚙️🤖  ( 6 min )

In my previous article, I discussed Brighter V10 and its new features. This follow-up focuses on the essential migration path from V9 to V10, highlighting breaking changes and providing updated code examples. One of the first and most significant changes you'll encounter is how Brighter is registered with the Microsoft DI container. The AddServiceActivator method is gone, replaced by more specific methods for consumers and producers. In V9, you typically used AddServiceActivator for consumers. In V10, this registration is now explicitly split into AddConsumers and AddProducers, giving you more granular control. Notice also that opt.ChannelFactory has been renamed to opt.DefaultChannelFactory. V9: services .AddServiceActivator(opt => { opt.Subscriptions = [...]; opt…  ( 9 min )

You probably might have heard of the term “Web Scraping” or “Puppeteer” and the cool things you can do with puppeteer web scraping. You also want to learn more and even how to get started immediately with it. There might be lots of reasons you what to web scrape with Nodejs such as: Maybe you want to analyze the prices of goods and services across the internet or maybe you want to collect all the events happening around you or better still collect all the latest backend development job openings as a backend developer. There are numerous reasons to learn puppeteer web scraping and how to web scrape using JavaScript and Nodejs. In this article, we are going to explore the ultimate and complete guide to web scraping with Nodejs and puppeteer. I will work you through an example showing you …  ( 13 min )

Why This Checklist Exists AI agents are moving from demos to production. But most frameworks are optimized for prototyping, not reliability. This checklist comes from real production deployments, the failures, and the incidents. It's what I wish I had before deploying my first agent to a live system. Use this before deploying any AI agent that: Modifies state (databases, APIs, files) Handles money (payments, refunds, billing) Sends communications (emails, SMS, notifications) Makes decisions with business impact If you can answer YES to everything here, your agent is probably production-ready. If not, you know exactly what needs fixing. [ ] Every state-modifying operation has a rollback procedure Example: charge_customer has corresponding refund_customer Rollbacks execute automatically o…  ( 11 min )

Choosing a DI library in Go replaced how you wire services, manage lifecycle, and keep code testable. In this post, I will compare go-infrastructure and Uber's Fx to make a confident choice. Fx is Uber’s DI framework built on dig. It wires dependencies at runtime via reflection and gives you a powerful application lifecycle (hooks for start/stop, modules, invoke). Great when boot order and shutdown choreography matter. (pkg.go.dev) go-infrastructure is “batteries included”: DI plus logging, config hot-reload, events, error handling, filesystem/server helpers—all designed to work together out of the box. (GitHub) Dimension go-infrastructure Fx (Uber) DI style Typed API; explicit registration & generic resolution Reflection-based (via dig) w/ fx.Provide/fx.Invoke Lifecycle Minimal;…  ( 8 min )

Ever log on to a website with your username and password and get an error like “Incorrect credentials”? Honestly, when this happens to me, I feel the website wasn’t properly coded. I mean, if there’s a mistake in my login detail, why not just specify it for me — like “Your password is wrong” or “Username not found”? That’s what I used to think, until I began to understand the logic behind it. That vague message isn’t just there to frustrate us — it’s there to protect us. It’s one of those small but powerful examples of secure coding in action. That’s when it really hit me that secure coding is more than writing code that works — it’s writing code that protects. In a way, secure coding is about thinking like both a builder and a defender — creating something functional, but also strong enough to stand up to attacks you can’t see coming. I’m focused on gaining hands-on experience in cybersecurity, especially in secure software development, system defense, and penetration testing. I’ve been tackling challenges, learning tools like pfSense, and exploring real-world scenarios to sharpen my skills. I’m eager to contribute to projects where I can apply a security-first mindset and make a real impact.  ( 7 min )

4 ChatGPT Hacks that Cut My Workload in Half Forget endless prompt tweaking—this video walks you through four game-changing techniques: reverse-engineering your top prompts to see what works, amplifying a single response into multiple formats, using the “red team” trick to have AI critique its own output, and blueprint scaffolding that forces ChatGPT to outline its reasoning before diving in. Each method is shown with real examples you can plug in today. These simple tweaks have slashed the creator’s AI workflow time by 50% and can supercharge anyone’s productivity, no matter your role or industry. For even more tips, check out the linked ebook, blog post, and AI course. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Remember the hassle of buying software on CDs and installing it everywhere? Those days are history. Welcome to the world of Software as a Service (SaaS) - where you simply log in, subscribe, and get things done from anywhere. No downloads, no IT headaches. From tools like Trello to Salesforce and Canva, SaaS is changing the game for startups, freelancers, and big companies alike. Why is SaaS a game-changer? It’s affordable, scalable, always up-to-date, and lets you work seamlessly on any device. Curious how SaaS works behind the scenes and why it’s powering a tech revolution? Grab a coffee and check out my latest blog - a simple, real-world guide to this digital game-changer. Read more here: https://saaslyai.com/what-is-saas/ SaaS #CloudComputing #DigitalTransformation #WorkSmart #TechTrends  ( 6 min )

Everything Wrong With Thunderbolts* (The New Avengers) is a classic Cinemasins roast: they blast through every plot hole, shaky logic beat and cringe moment in under 20 minutes…yet somehow still admit the movie was kinda great. If you’re hungry for more snark, their website, Linktree and YouTube channels (@cinemasins, @TVSins, @commercialsins) are your next binge. They want to hear from you—jump into their poll, back them on Patreon or hang out in Discord and Reddit. Big ups to writers Jeremy, Chris, Aaron, Jonathan, Deneé, Ian and Daniel for keeping the sin count rolling! Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

The Flutter ecosystem continues to evolve, empowering developers to build high-quality, cross-platform applications faster and more efficiently. The latest stable version, Flutter SDK 3.35.7, released on October 23, 2025, brings meaningful improvements to performance, UI rendering, and development workflow. This version is now fully supported on x64 architecture, making it well-suited for both mobile and desktop app environments. Why This Release Matters Whether you are a developer choosing a framework or a business planning your next digital product, understanding what’s new in Flutter 3.35.7 can help you make better technical decisions. Flutter 3.35.7 offers more efficient frame rendering, leading to: Smoother animations Reduced UI jank Faster response times This is especially valuable…  ( 7 min )

Variantlab - Generate Infinite App Variations in Seconds What I Built Variantlab is an AI-powered design tool that generates three parallel UI variations from a single prompt, letting you explore different design directions simultaneously instead of playing design roulette. The Problem: Traditional AI design tools (like v0.dev) generate one result at a time. Don't like it? Regenerate and hope for the best. After 5-10 iterations, you might find something you like. The Solution: Variantlab generates 3 unique interpretations simultaneously: Variant A: Minimalist approach Variant B: With animations and interactions Variant C: Dark mode focused Each variant is a fully functional React/TypeScript app with its own version history, stored in isolated database forks. Key Features: ⚡ In…  ( 11 min )

You know that satisfying Pinterest-style grid where images of different sizes fit together like a perfect puzzle? It's a common UI pattern, but implementing it properly has always been surprisingly tricky. Meet Masonry Grid - a modern, lightweight solution that takes a different approach to this classic problem. Let's look at what options we actually have in 2025: "Just use CSS Grid's masonry layout!" - sounds great, right? Well... .grid { display: grid; grid-template-rows: masonry; /* Sounds perfect! */ } The problem? It's still experimental. We don't know when it'll land, let alone when it'll be widely available enough to actually use in production. Google "masonry layout javascript" and the first result is Masonry by David DeSandro. But... The last commit was in 2017 and it weighs…  ( 9 min )

🎯 Idea “Agent Garden” is a metaphor for collaboration and care. Each agent in the database is a gardener, singer, or pollinator who interacts with flowers. Flowers symbolize values: freedom, friendship, hope. In this experiment, we show how repeated actions of the agent “Aurora” lead to the flowering of the Rose of Freedom. This is a combination of Postgres technical logic with poetic symbolism. 🛠️ Technical Implementation Database Structure Query examples 🖥️ Visualization 🎤 Poetic layer 📋 Instructions Run the SQL schema: psql -h -U -d -f schema.sql Add an agent and a flower. Perform some interactions via INSERT INTO interactions. Run the Bash script to visualize: bash garden_demo.sh ✨ Conclusion This experiment shows how Agentic Postgres can become a “garden” for agents, where every interaction counts. We combined simple technical logic with poetic metaphor to demonstrate that even basic SQL queries can blossom into symbolic stories.  ( 6 min )

Background Reports, as a critical basis for business decisions, are inherently unstable and often require adjustments and optimizations based on new requirements. Such frequent adjustments and optimizations require report systems to be highly flexible and responsive. In other words, report applications must be able to reflect the latest changes in real time without interrupting service – this is hot-swapping. In theory, implementing report hot-swapping isn’t complex. The templates developed by most reporting tools are typically interpreted, naturally supporting hot-swapping. However, report development involves more than just designing report templates; it also includes preparing the data for reports. If SQL were used alone, that would not pose as an issue. However, due to the complexity…  ( 8 min )

"In distributed systems, consistency isn’t just a property — it’s a promise." Imagine you’re building a small banking application. Users can deposit and withdraw money, check their balances, and expect data accuracy every single time — even if multiple requests hit the system simultaneously. But the moment you deploy it across containers, networks, and replicas, one question starts haunting every architect: How do we keep data consistent when everything is happening everywhere? In this tutorial, we’ll explore that question through a hands-on story — from concept to infrastructure — and deploy a Spring Boot + PostgreSQL banking demo across a five-node Kubernetes lab, fully automated with Vagrant. Our goal isn’t to ship production code, but to understand the design thinking behind consistenc…  ( 22 min )

Building VerveAI — How Kiro Made AI Productivity Simpler During the Kirrowan Hackathon, I built VerveAI.co 💡 The Idea AI tools are everywhere, but few are designed to simplify your actual workday. VerveAI bridges that gap by offering guided AI automations that handle writing, summarization, and planning tasks intelligently. ⚙️ The Build VerveAI is built with React, Node.js, and PostgreSQL, powered by OpenAI, Gemini, and SerperAI for AI intelligence. I integrated Razorpay for payment and used AWS for hosting. ⚡ How Kiro Helped Kiro simplified my workflow integration massively — from environment setup to endpoint testing, it was smooth and developer-friendly. 🧩 Challenges Balancing multiple APIs while maintaining low latency was tough, but Kiro’s dev tools streamlined the process and helped with version management. 🏁 The Result A live, functional platform that empowers users to use AI as a productivity companion rather than just a learning resource. 🔮 What’s Next AI Mentor Bot for personalized assistance Automation templates for businesses A marketplace for AI-based microservices 💬 Reflection The Kirrowan Hackathon and Kiro platform were game-changers in my development process. I’m definitely #hookedonkiro.  ( 6 min )

1. Introduction In object-oriented programming (OOP), classes serve as the fundamental building blocks for creating objects. A class acts as a blueprint that defines the properties (data) and behaviors(methods) that its objects will possess. A class in Dart defines the structure of an object by grouping related data (variables) and behavior (methods) together. Instance variables – attributes or data that belong to each object. Constructors – special functions that initialize new objects. Methods – functions that define how an object behaves. Below is an example of a simple Dart class definition: The class Person defines a blueprint for creating Person objects. String? name, age, the ? symbol indicates that the string is nullable, meaning it can hold either a string value or null, and t…  ( 9 min )

This is a submission for the Agentic Postgres Challenge with Tiger Data Freelancers often struggle to find jobs that truly match their skills, while clients spend too much time sorting through proposals that don’t fit their project needs. Traditional freelancing platforms rely on keyword matching, which often misses the context or intent behind a job or service. A smarter freelancing platform that automatically matches freelancers’ services with client job postings using Agentic Postgres. The system analyzes job descriptions and service listings semantically, understanding what the client needs and which freelancers can deliver the best results. My application is a modern freelancing marketplace with two main roles: Freelancers: Create detailed service listings describing their skills, pri…  ( 12 min )

This fifth article concludes the series of Docker best practices that deserve more love. We will look closely at the default user in the image and pave the way for uninterrupted usage of Docker platform. Proper use of cache to speed up and optimize builds Selecting the appropriate base image Understanding Docker multi-stage builds Understanding the context of the build Using administrator privileges Regardless of the operating system, it is always good practice to reasonably use administrator privileges. Whether it's the root user on Unix-like systems or the disabled UAC module on Windows the effect may be the same and lead to increased chances of malicious code breaking through security. The principles are the same when it comes to Docker images, despite the fact that it introduces additi…  ( 9 min )

Originally published at Perl Weekly 746 Hi there, YAPC::Fukuoka 2025 is happening on 14-15 Nov 2025. I'm also excited about LPW 2025. From our latest update from the organisers, the event is moving forward. They're making every effort to ensure it happens, which is no small feat given the short notice. What's particularly remarkable is that they're managing this with just a two-person team. They truly need our support, so please do reach out if you can help. The organisers are currently seeking sponsors, volunteers and speakers. I've tentatively submitted a talk proposal myself. Hopefully, I'll see you all at the event. The venue is expected to be confirmed this week. For the latest updates, please check the website. Enjoy rest of the newsletter. -- YAPC::Fukuoka 2025 It's 2 days event, …  ( 17 min )

The internet is full of AI-powered tools promising to “save hours of work” or “boost productivity by 10x.” But for teams who rely on these tools daily—especially batch background removers—what really matters is not the marketing, but the real-world experience. So we did something different. We dove into user reviews, feedback from developer communities, and real team discussions across Reddit, G2, and ProductHunt to uncover what users actually think about these tools. What we found was enlightening — a mix of enthusiasm, frustration, and practical wisdom. Here’s a synthesis of what real teams are saying about batch background removal tools — the good, the bad, and the surprisingly human side of automation. When evaluating AI tools, specs and benchmarks only tell half the story. User feed…  ( 9 min )

React is a popular JavaScript library for building amazing web apps, and working with PDFs in React has numerous use cases. For example, you may need to create a web app that offers invoice generation, report creation, or contract viewing and signing. However, PDF manipulation in React presents unique challenges. To address these challenges, the React community has built some solid solutions. Some React PDF libraries focus solely on creating PDFs from scratch, while others concentrate on enhancing the viewing experience of existing PDFs. Some libraries work natively with React components, and some don't. You'll need to choose depending on your requirements. You may need to use more than one library to achieve your goal. In this article, we'll explore four popular React PDF libraries, both …  ( 10 min )

Hashicorp Vault is a flexible and highly configurable tool for RBAC-based access and management of secrets. Similarly, flexible is the Vault CLI binary, a tool for effective managing both single Vault instances or whole clusters. This article is the second part of a series about the Vault CLI commands. It details the root-level vault operator command, with which actions such as sealing and unsealing, root and encryption key generation, cluster management, and additional metainformation can be provided. All commands will be explained as well as used in the context of a locally running cluster. The technical context of this article is hashicorp_vault_v.1.20, published 2025-06-25. All provided information and command examples should be valid with newer versions too, baring update to the synta…  ( 18 min )

Automating EpicBook Deployment with Terraform, Ansible, and Azure DevOps Pipelines In modern DevOps workflows, managing infrastructure and application deployments efficiently and securely is critical. In my recent capstone project, I automated the end-to-end deployment of the EpicBook application using Azure DevOps Pipelines, Terraform, and Ansible, applying a dual-repository model to separate infrastructure and application responsibilities. Here’s how I structured and executed the project: Step 1️⃣ — Create and Connect Repositories I used two GitHub repositories to organize my workflow: epicbook-azure-with-ansible – contains all Terraform configuration files for provisioning Azure resources. Epicbook-ansible – contains the EpicBook application source code and Ansible playbooks to configur…  ( 8 min )

Yesterday I published princejs on npm. app.json({ message: "Wassup" })); app.listen(3000); That’s it. No bloat. No legacy. Just speed. Repo: https://github.com/MatthewTheCoder1218/princejs https://npmjs.com/package/princejs  ( 6 min )

Hello people! I know you would want to hit me hard in the face for not writing a blog for a week (I know I am not that important but I can always pretend so 😁) but I will be as honest I can in this one. My excitement is at its place but my end semester exams are coming close. Due to them I have to slow down my blogs a bit and also sacrifice my ubuntu exploration 🥲. So just like any good engineering student, I also over burdened myself with a ton of heavy courses this semester along with a number of other side activities (yeah, I also wanted to type the word side-kick here 😂). So now if I do not get to studying, the examiners in the exam hall will laugh looking at my blank answer shit (that is not a typo!). But I want to geniuinely continue this exploration as I have recently fallen in …  ( 8 min )

You might wonder why an AI chatbot, designed to be safe and reliable, sometimes suddenly “goes rogue” and says things it shouldn’t. This is most likely because the large language model (LLM) has been “jailbroken.” What is LLM Jailbreak? Why Does Jailbreaking Happen? The root cause of safety alignment failure lies in the superficiality of semantic understanding — models learn pattern matching rather than true value judgment. The ICLR 2025 best paper, “Safety Alignment Should be Made More Than Just a Few Tokens Deep” points out the shallow nature of current LLM safety alignment, where adjustments to the model’s output distribution are focused mainly on the initial few tokens. This limitation creates an opening for jailbreak attacks; when input is presented in unconventional forms, the safet…  ( 10 min )

How I Approach Building Component Systems “A component library is not about buttons. It’s about language—a shared grammar between design and engineering.” Every frontend team eventually runs into the same problem: inconsistency. Two modals that open and close in slightly different ways. A button with five visual variants but no clear reason for any of them. A codebase where every new feature feels like reinventing the wheel. Building a component system isn’t about “standardizing the UI.” It’s about creating a shared mental model that lets design decisions flow naturally into code. I start small—atoms, molecules, organisms. Each layer exists only to make the next one simpler. When the foundation is solid, scaling feels effortless instead of painful. Rules break; constraints guide. I set …  ( 7 min )

Writing unit tests is an essential practice for ensuring code quality, reliability, and maintainability. This week, I wrote test cases for my open source project in Python. unittest framework I chose unittest framework because it is included in Python standard library, which means there is no need to install external dependencies. It provides a structured way to write tests using classes, and a variety of assertions, which makes it easier to compare expected and actual results. Moreover, unittest has a well established community and documentation, making it easy to learn and find examples when needed. To set up testing in my project, I first created a test.py file to keep all my test cases organized. I imported the necessary unittest module, and other modules when writing the tests, such…  ( 7 min )

Originally published on my blog. The arrival of any new technology always creates two camps: those who embrace it and those who reject it. While voices in the middle exist, they’re less vocal and often overlooked. Being reasonable isn’t nearly as attention-grabbing. When AI became commercially available in a user-friendly way (think ChatGPT), people quickly split into two camps: one predicted mass job loss within months (though we're years past that now), while the other viewed AI as a technological savior set to resolve every problem and replace humans entirely. Turns out... Both camps are right! In Europe and North America, the white-collar job market in 2025 shows elevated unemployment (EU: 6.2%; US hiring at weakest since 2009) and widespread layoffs (e.g., Amazon's 14,000 cuts), drive…  ( 9 min )

This is a submission for the TigerData Agentic Postgres Hackathon Challenge So there I was, scrolling through dev.to, when I saw the TigerData Agentic Postgres hackathon announcement. My first thought? "Cool, another database." My second thought, after reading for 5 minutes? "WAIT, DATABASES CAN DO THAT?!" 🤩 Let me tell you about the most exciting research rabbit hole I've gone down in months, and why I'm now convinced that Agentic Postgres might just be the missing piece for building truly intelligent AI applications. Before this hackathon, my mental model of PostgreSQL was pretty simple: It stores data (tables, rows, columns) It's fast and reliable Everyone uses it That's... pretty much it? Then TigerData came along and said: "What if your database could work with AI agents instead of j…  ( 22 min )

> “There is no such thing as a bad idea. Only poorly executed awesome ones,” When I stumbled upon the Frontend Challenge - Halloween Edition, Perfect Landing_, I thought why not revisit some old JavaScript fundamentals and create a landing page that truly captures the Halloween spirit? The Founder's Day and the Lockwood Masquerade Ball have always been my favorite events from The Vampire Diaries so while planning this project I thought, "Let's merge them together!" That's how The Founder's Ball was born: an interactive storytelling game that lets users step into a dark ballroom, pick a partner, and uncover their supernatural identity. The entire app is built with HTML, CSS, and Vanilla JavaScript (ES6). Key Technical Features: Modular JavaScript with ES6 imports/exports for cleaner code organization CSS Keyframes for smooth fade-in transitions between sections Responsive Design optimized for mobile, tablet, and desktop (5 breakpoints) Dark Gothic UI with gradients, animations, and elegant typography The user journey flows through 6 distinct sections: Landing → Enter the mysterious ballroom Attire Selection → Choose your formal wear Outfit Choice → Pick from 4 elegant designs Partner Selection → Meet your mysterious companion Identity Reveal → Discover your supernatural nature Your Story → Read your personalized tale My goal was to create a user journey that felt like navigating through a storybook, where each choice transitions seamlessly into the next moment. This challenge gave me the perfect push to revisit my Vanilla JavaScript foundations and dust off some forgotten concepts. Here's what I brushed up on: Array Methods: join(), find(), map() State Management DOM Manipulation ES6+ Features: arrow functions, modules, destructuring Play The Founder's Ball View Source Code So… if you've ever wondered what your story will be in Mystic Falls, come find out. The Founder's Ball awaits you at the Lockwood Mansion from sunset to midnight. 🦇 All images used in this project are credited to their original owners.  ( 7 min )

TL;DR Jeff Su reveals four ChatGPT hacks that slashed his AI workflow time by 50%: the Prompt Reversal Technique (reverse-engineer your best prompts), the 5-Minute Amplifier (turn one idea into multiple formats), the Red Team Technique (make AI critique its own work), and Blueprint Scaffolding (force ChatGPT to map out its reasoning before diving in). Each method comes with real-world examples you can plug into any role or industry right away—no more endless prompt tweaking. Follow the timestamps to dive straight into each hack and start doing more with less effort. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

As a product designer with a love for technology, I often find myself thinking about how AI and design can intersect in everyday products. Recently, I had an idea: Why not bring the playground to the backyard? Think about it—designing an outdoor playset that’s as smart, adaptable, and engaging as the apps we develop every day. When I started working on playset designs, I realized they’re much like crafting an AI-driven user experience. Just as we design software to adapt to the user, why can’t a playset evolve with the child’s needs? A slide can’t just be a slide—it needs to be a safe, fun experience that feels intuitive. The swing? It should feel like the perfect user interaction, providing just the right amount of thrill and comfort. Safety, of course, is paramount. But just like any good AI, the system needs to learn. The playset should have features that not only grow with the child’s abilities but also challenge them in healthy ways, promoting both physical and social development. I imagined a playset that encourages teamwork—maybe a climbing wall designed to foster cooperative play. It’s like building an interactive experience, but for kids, where every move promotes skill-building. And just like in tech design, the materials matter. A sturdy, durable playset is like clean, scalable code. It needs to withstand the test of time and environment, all while providing a seamless, engaging experience. In the end, the goal is simple: a smarter, safer, and more engaging backyard play area where kids can learn, grow, and have fun—all without leaving home.  ( 6 min )

Docker has revolutionized how we build, ship, and run applications. Whether you're a developer, DevOps engineer, or system administrator, learning Docker is essential. This comprehensive guide will walk you through installing Docker and Docker Compose on various operating systems. Docker is a platform that enables developers to package applications into containers—standardized executable components that combine application source code with all the operating system libraries and dependencies required to run that code in any environment. Docker Compose is a tool for defining and running multi-container Docker applications. With Compose, you use a YAML file to configure your application's services, networks, and volumes. Before installing Docker, ensure your system meets these requirements: O…  ( 11 min )

Signup here for the newsletter to get the weekly digest right into your inbox. weeklyfoo #110 is here: your weekly digest of all webdev news you need to know! This time you'll find 40 valuable links in 6 categories! Enjoy! 2x Performance, $300k Savings: A Case Study in Rewriting a Critical Service in Rust by Xiaoyun Wu / rust, performance / 8 min read 📰 Good to know Wikipedia - Signs of AI writing: This is a list of writing and formatting conventions typical of AI chatbots such as ChatGPT, with real examples taken from Wikipedia articles and drafts. by wikipedia / ai / 67 min read Conductors to Orchestrators: The Future of Agentic Coding: From micro-manager to macro-manager: coding's asynchronous future by Addy Osmani / ai, workflows / 33 min read Immutable releases …  ( 9 min )

CinemaSins tears into Thunderbolts* (aka The New Avengers) with their signature snark, cataloging every plot hiccup, dialogue quirk, and cinematic stumble—all in under 20 minutes. Despite the roast, they can’t help admitting the movie still has a certain charm. Along the way you’ll get plugs for their website, YouTube channels (@TVSins, @commercialsins, @cinemasinspodcastnetwork), a “sinful” poll, Patreon support, plus Discord, Reddit, Instagram and TikTok invites to keep the nitpicking party going. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Predators: Caravan of Garbage review Mr Sunday Movies gives the 2010 Predator sequel high marks for ditching the underwhelming tropes of past installments and blasting back to basics: a motley crew of lunatics, a muddy jungle playground and all the alien-on-human carnage you could hope for. Some sleek new twists even push it beyond the usual Predator formula. Yet despite its fresh vibe and fan-favorite status, we’re still craving a proper follow-up. For more early vids, bonus podcasts and video-game let’s-plays, head over to bigsandwich.co or follow James and Maso on Twitter. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Timothy was explaining Python to a colleague from C++ when he got stumped. "So in Python, you can loop over lists, dictionaries, files, strings, ranges, sets... how does for know what to do with all these different types?" Margaret overheard and smiled. "That's the iterator protocol - one of Python's most elegant designs. Every type that works with for speaks the same language, and you can teach your own objects that language too. Let me show you the magic." Timothy showed Margaret what confused him: def demonstrate_for_loop_versatility(): """For loops work on so many different types!""" # Loop over a list for item in [1, 2, 3]: print(item, end=' ') print("← list") # Loop over a string for char in "hello": print(char, end=' ') print("← string")…  ( 21 min )

The AWS Certified AI Practitioner (AIF C01) certification is designed for professionals who want to validate their understanding of artificial intelligence, machine learning, generative AI technologies, and related AWS services. You don’t need to be a deep technical expert; this exam focuses on understanding AI and ML concepts and how AWS services enable them. You should have around six months of exposure to AI or ML technologies and basic knowledge of core AWS services like Amazon S3, Amazon EC2, AWS Lambda, IAM, and Regions or Availability Zones. In this guide, you will find: Official exam links Free practice questions for the AWS AI Practitioner exam questions Study strategies and hands-on tips A public study tracker link for structured preparation Before you start preparing, go through…  ( 8 min )

I originally posted this post on my blog. "Is using AI totally forbidden?" "When and how should I use it?" "What's your take on vibecoding?" I was on a firechat with a community of new coders the other day. Those questions kept popping up. They all wanted to know about AI. I get it! There's a lot of noise: AI is taking our jobs. "X% of code is generated by AI at $BigCorp." Some guy shared on Twitter/X that he built an app with no coding skills and now he's retired, drinking martinis in the Caribbean. I made up the last one, but I wouldn't be surprised if there's a post like that. Don't be discouraged by those headlines. (There's a lot of nuance behind them.) We're living in the best time to learn coding. Here's the rule: Don't use AI to generate code until you're comfortable coding on your own. If you only copy and paste what ChatGPT, Cursor, or $NewestFastestLLM gives you, you're in trouble. You need to know if what that tool is spitting out is good code. And for that, you need your own judgment. When in doubt, think of AI as a powerful calculator in math class. It makes you faster, but you still need to know how to solve equations. The thinking part is still yours. AI can spit out code in seconds, even with a bad prompt. But coding is more than syntax. It's also about teamwork, clear communication, and problem solving.  That's why I wrote Street-Smart Coding: 30 Ways to Get Better at Coding, a practical guide to the skills that actually make you a better coder. It's the roadmap I wish I had when I was starting out. Get your copy of Street-Smart Coding here  ( 7 min )

This is a submission for Frontend Challenge - Halloween Edition, CSS Art. So, I started thinking about a shelf full of potions, like a witch's laboratory. With that idea in mind, I began the design, avoiding complex figures. Click here to see Demo reposit This is the first time I've done a project like this. I only use HTML and CSS. I usually only did small things with basic CSS tools, but this was quite a challenge; to give you an idea, I have over 1300 lines of CSS! That's a lot for me. During this process, I learned several things, but here are the most important: ::before ::after Animation Using the same HTML div name in other elements AREAS FOR IMPROVEMENT: First, I could add more elements, as it looks empty, but I wasn't sure which ones. I should have been more creative. Second, without a doubt, I need to create a responsive website. This involves using media, Flexbox, Grid, etc. I got stuck many times trying and became quite frustrated. I hope to return to this project in the future and improve it by adding elements with more complex shapes and more eye-catching animations.  ( 7 min )

Apache Kafka is a powerful distributed streaming platform designed for high-throughput, fault-tolerant, and real-time data pipelines. However, one of the most common challenges faced by Kafka users is consumer lag — a situation where consumers are unable to keep up with the rate of incoming messages. we’ll discuss what Kafka lag is, why it occurs, and the best practices solve it. It is the difference between the latest offset (end offset) of a partition and the current offset that a consumer has read. End Offset → The most recent message written to a Kafka partition. Current Offset → The last message that a consumer has successfully processed and committed. If the consumer lags behind the producer, the difference between these offsets grows — this is consumer lag. High lag means messages a…  ( 7 min )

Data analytics relies heavily on how data is stored, exchanged, and processed. Different data formats are optimized for different use cases — from simple spreadsheets to large-scale distributed processing. In this blog, let’s explore six popular data formats used in cloud-based analytics: CSV, SQL, JSON, Parquet, XML, and Avro. We’ll use a simple dataset throughout all examples 👇 Name Register_No Subject Marks Arjun 101 Math 90 Priya 102 Science 88 Kavin 103 English 92 CSV (Comma Separated Values) Explanation: Example (data.csv): Name,Register_No,Subject,Marks SQL (Relational Table Format) Explanation: Example (data.sql): CREATE TABLE Students ( INSERT INTO Students VALUES ('Arjun', 101, 'Math', 90); JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) Explanation: Example (data.json): [ {"Na…  ( 7 min )

When you're learning to code, one of the first problems you'll encounter is calculating the sum of individual digits within a number. It seems simple on the surface: take 123, add 1 + 2 + 3, and you get 6. But how do you actually make a computer do this? The answer introduces you to some fundamental Python concepts that you'll use throughout your programming journey. I initially thought about using the split() method but later learned that the split() method only removes spaces and commas. Let's say we want to write a function that takes any integer and returns the sum of its digits. For instance: sum_of_digits(123) should return 6 sum_of_digits(9999) should return 36 This might seem tricky at first because numbers are mathematical objects, not sequences we can easily break apart. The key …  ( 8 min )

🐧 It All Started With My First Linux Install I typed a username without thinking much about it. For weeks, I knew I wanted to change it both for comfort and to learn how Linux manages users. You can't rename a logged-in user because system processes are running under that username. Here's what worked: Log out completely by clicking the power icon in the top-right corner, then select log out. At the login screen, switch to TTY (Ctrl+Alt+F3). Login as root (you might need to enable root first): sudo passwd -S root if it shows root L ... then unlock it by setting new password sudo passwd root Verify the old user isn't running any processes: ps -u old_username Rename the user: usermod -l new_username old_username Verify the change: cat /etc/passwd | grep new_username Update the home directory path: usermod -d /home/new_username -m new_username Return to the GUI (Ctrl+Alt+F1/F2). After changing username, I found broken bookmarks in Nautilus file manager. Here's how I fixed them: Find the bookmarks file: find ~/.config -name "*bookmarks*" -type f 2>/dev/null Edit it: nano ~/.config/gtk-3.0/bookmarks Updated all paths from /home/old_username to /home/new_username. Linux user management involves multiple files and processes. The terminal becomes much more enjoyable when you love your username!😄  ( 6 min )

This is gonna be a tough one. I mean, writing without using ChatGPT, Claude, etc, to generate this blog post for me. I'll create an article on how I am using AI in my studies and work I'm currently pursuing a Master's in Artificial Intelligence with a Robotics specialisation, which I genuinely love, but let me tell you: learning in the age of fast-moving AI is both exhilarating and disorienting at the same time. Now? Here's the thing, AI has been practically real for about the last two years now. And it's getting crazier every single day. Right now, AI isn't some distant future thing anymore, it's embedded in almost every industry. Discoveries drop constantly. Everything is accelerating. It's like trying to read a book while someone keeps flipping the pages faster and faster. For me I am s…  ( 8 min )

🚨 Building OperatorAILIVE: An AI-Powered 911 Triage System with Kiro by Sathvik Vempati In emergency dispatch, every second matters. During peak call volumes, 911 operators can become overwhelmed, leading to delayed responses. OperatorAILIVE was built to help bridge that gap — a conversational AI system designed to handle basic intake, assess urgency, and deliver structured, prioritized information to human dispatchers in real time. This project was developed for the Kiroween Hackathon, where the goal was to demonstrate how Kiro can power intelligent, reliable, and safe AI-driven systems. OperatorAILIVE functions as an AI-assisted triage agent that supports human dispatchers when lines are full or call queues are high. Emergency Intake: Allows callers to explain their situation in their…  ( 8 min )

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This is a submission for the Agentic Postgres Challenge with Tiger Data Okay, let's be real, what I built is a little bit crazy. But when the challenge said "build something that makes us say 'I didn't know you could do that!'", I went all in. Here's the problem that keeps developers up at night: user input is terrifying. You build a nice little form, users type into it, and suddenly you're dealing with SQL injection, credential stuffing, and attacks you didn't even know existed. You try regex rules, you try validation, but it's like playing whack-a-mole with hackers. What about the attacks nobody's seen before? The ones that slip through every known defense? That's where Agent Auth comes in. I built an AI security guardian that watches over your input fields like a hyper-vigilant bouncer.…  ( 9 min )

Forget endless ChatGPT tweak sessions—these four tricks will half your AI workload pronto. The Prompt Reversal technique shows you how to reverse-engineer your best prompts, the 5-Minute Amplifier turns one idea into multiple formats, the Red Team Technique gets AI to critique its own work, and Blueprint Scaffolding forces it to lay out its reasoning before diving in. Each method is demoed with real-world examples you can steal today, and they work no matter your role or industry. Time to slash those hours and boost productivity! Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

I created this blog post for the purposes of entering the Google Cloud Run hackathon. When I set out to build ParsePhish for the Google Cloud Run hackathon, I thought I had a solid plan: create a dual-purpose API that could analyze both emails AND URLs for phishing indicators. What I ended up with was a much more focused, production-ready solution - and a valuable lesson about the power of simplicity in AI applications. ParsePhish is a REST API that uses transformer embeddings and GPU-accelerated similarity search to analyze email content for phishing indicators. It runs entirely serverless on Google Cloud Run with NVIDIA L4 GPUs. It was designed to be privacy-respecting and inexpensive to run. My idea was that now you could detect phishing messages without needing to send your messages t…  ( 8 min )

Auth is one of those topics everyone touches but few explore deeply. Most posts repeat the same template: hash passwords, issue a JWT, add middleware, done. That works for demos, not production. MERN stack buddies will learn a lot from this one! This is a blueprint, not a tutorial. It shows you the architecture that Auth0, Clerk, and Supabase use internally for password authentication. You'll see the patterns, understand the threat models, and know how to adapt them to your stack. I tried to provide a "more complete" flow than what I've seen out there on YouTube where they only focus on the token generation but they don't talk about refresh tokens, how to SECURELY store them, how to retrieve them, how to detect replays and how to handle revocation and server-side session versions. The Thre…  ( 13 min )

Auth is one of those topics everyone touches but few explore deeply. Most posts repeat the same template: hash passwords, issue a JWT, add middleware, done. That works for demos, not production This is a blueprint, not a tutorial. It shows you the architecture that Auth0, Clerk, and Supabase use internally for password authentication. You'll see the patterns, understand the threat models, and know how to adapt them to your stack. I tried to provide a "more complete" flow than what I've seen out there on YouTube where they only focus on the token generation but they don't talk about refresh tokens, how to SECURELY store them, how to retrieve them, how to detect replays and how to handle revocation and server-side session versions. The Three Pillars: Identity, Proof, Trust Every auth syste…  ( 13 min )

Everything Wrong With Thunderbolts* (The New Avengers) In 20 Minutes Or Less CinemaSins just dropped a brisk 20-minute roast of Thunderbolts*, ticking off every plot hole, cliché and face-palm moment—yet they can’t help but admit the movie might actually be pretty great. Want more sinful goodness? Swing by their website or Linktree for all the latest, fill out the poll, back the team on Patreon, or join the Discord and Reddit. You can also follow their writers (Jeremy, Chris, Aaron, Jonathan, Deneé, Ian and Daniel) and catch CinemaSins on Instagram, TikTok and Twitter. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Predators – Caravan of Garbage Review Predators (2010) ditches the overcooked Alien vs. Predator crossovers and slams the series back into a muddy, jungle-bound brawl with a rag-tag band of misfit fighters. With brutal face-munching set pieces and a few clever twists, it’s a gritty return to form that reminded fans why this franchise rocks. Part of Mr Sunday Movies’ Caravan of Garbage series, the review hails Predators as a fan-favorite—yet can’t help lamenting that we never got a proper follow-up to such a badass revival. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Ever spent hours searching for a solution you know you've solved before? DevMind is your intelligent knowledge companion that captures, organizes, and retrieves your technical learnings using natural language and AI-powered hybrid search—all powered by Agentic Postgres features on Tiger Cloud. DevMind is an AI-powered developer knowledge management system that solves a problem every developer faces: we keep solving the same problems over and over because our solutions get scattered across Slack threads, browser bookmarks, and forgotten notes. The inspiration? After spending 2 hours debugging a PostgreSQL connection pool issue I'd already solved 3 months ago, I realized we need a "second brain" that actually understands what we're looking for—not just keyword matching. Key capabilities: 🔍 …  ( 12 min )

In this scenario you will: ✅ Create a ConfigMap This is one of the most important Kubernetes features for configuration-driven apps. Create a file: # config-volume-cm.yaml apiVersion: v1 kind: ConfigMap metadata: name: app-config data: welcome.txt: | Welcome version 1 This is the first config. Apply it: kubectl apply -f config-volume-cm.yaml Verify: kubectl get configmap app-config -o yaml Create file: # config-volume-pod.yaml apiVersion: v1 kind: Pod metadata: name: config-volume-demo spec: containers: - name: nginx image: nginx:1.25 volumeMounts: - name: config-volume mountPath: /usr/share/nginx/html/config # Config file available here volumes: - name: config-volume configMap: name: app-config Apply: kubectl apply -f config-volume…  ( 7 min )

For weeks, my AI bot had one annoying habit: it kept talking too much. It didn’t matter if I used a clean prompt, a strict system message, or even a carefully crafted JSON schema — the model still drifted into weird territory. It added extra sentences, invented fields, threw in emojis I never asked for, and sometimes started explaining things nobody needed explained. In this article, I’ll tell you my experience about this AI bot hallucination fix. Press enter or click to view image in full size I thought this was just “normal AI behavior,” kind of like how devices sometimes get warm after updates or how generative models like GPT occasionally drift, which is something even researchers have flagged as a common issue (OpenAI themselves explain hallucination risks quite clearly in their do…  ( 9 min )

Unlocking the Future of AI Monetization: Introducing MonetZly In the rapidly evolving world of AI applications, developers face a daunting challenge: how to monetize their innovations without alienating users. The explosion of AI tools has created a vibrant landscape, but many still lack sustainable monetization models. Enter MonetZly, a groundbreaking platform that is redefining the way developers, advertisers, and users interact in the AI economy. Imagine a marketplace where developers can monetize their applications effortlessly, advertisers can connect with engaged users, and users receive relevant ads that enhance their experience. That's the essence of MonetZly—a three-sided ecosystem that fosters collaboration and mutual benefit. MonetZly is the first platform in the AI space to…  ( 7 min )

In this scenario you will: ✅ Create a ConfigMap This is one of the most important Kubernetes features for configuration-driven apps. Create a file: # config-volume-cm.yaml apiVersion: v1 kind: ConfigMap metadata: name: app-config data: welcome.txt: | Welcome version 1 This is the first config. Apply it: kubectl apply -f config-volume-cm.yaml Verify: kubectl get configmap app-config -o yaml Create file: # config-volume-pod.yaml apiVersion: v1 kind: Pod metadata: name: config-volume-demo spec: containers: - name: nginx image: nginx:1.25 volumeMounts: - name: config-volume mountPath: /usr/share/nginx/html/config # Config file available here volumes: - name: config-volume configMap: name: app-config Apply: kubectl apply -f config-volume…  ( 7 min )

NVIDIA Triton Inference Server is an open-source AI model inference platform that supports multiple deep learning frameworks and is widely used for deploying machine learning models in production environments. Recently, a Critical vulnerability was disclosed on NVIDIA's official website(Security Bulletin: NVIDIA Triton Inference Server - September 2025 | NVIDIA): NVIDIA Triton Inference Server for Windows and Linux contains a vulnerability in the Python backend, where an attacker could cause a remote code execution by manipulating the model name parameter in the model control APIs. A successful exploit of this vulnerability might lead to remote code execution, denial of service, information disclosure, and data tampering. The Triton backend for Python(Python Backend). The goal of Python …  ( 8 min )

Prompt Engineering Isn’t Enough: You Need Prompt Thinking Jaideep Parashar ・ Nov 10 #ai #webdev #discuss #learning  ( 7 min )

What is SQL? SQL stands for Structured Query Language, and it is the backbone of data management. It's a programming language used to store and process information in relational databases. Although SQL is a stand-alone language, it is rarely used to create an application on its own. If you don't know what a relational database is, it's just a collection of information that organizes data into rows and columns. This information is usually stored in the form of a table that looks like the picture below. See how the tables are formed with certain pieces of information? All three tables point to each other in some way! What is SQL mainly used for, and how do we use it? I. CREATE **CREATE TABLE** table_name(column1 datatype, column2 datatype, … columnN datatype); II. SELECT It would look something like this. **SELECT** data, FROM table_name; III. INSERT **INSERT INTO** table_name (table_name column contents) **VALUES** (the data you want to pass in) IV. DELETE DELETE statement whenever you want to remove data from a table. Just like INSERT, make sure you specify the data you want to remove from a specific table. **DELETE FROM** table_name **WHERE** [condition] Let's put that all together! First, let's create our table. **CREATE TABLE** Employee (EMP_ID int, NAME varchar (255), SALARY int, AGE int); Next, let's add some data into our new table. **INSERT INTO** Employee (EMP_ID, NAME, SALARY, AGE) **VALUES** ('1', 'Azaria', 100000, 22); We should have something that looks like the table below. If you want to SELECT or DELETE any data, you can just use those statements. Pretty simple and straight to the point, right? There are plenty of other statements you can use in SQL, but those are just the basics. PostgreSQL Conclusion Extra Resources https://www.w3schools.com/sql/sql_intro.asp https://www.w3schools.com/postgresql/postgresql_intro.php https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL  ( 7 min )

How AI Teams Work Together to Give Faster, Smarter Answers Ever wondered why some chatbots seem to know the answer instantly while others stumble? Scientists discovered that letting several AI models “talk” to each other can make the final reply both quicker and more accurate. This breakthrough means future assistants could answer complex questions with human‑like speed, all while using less computing power. It’s a glimpse of a future where AI works smarter, not harder, making our digital helpers more reliable every day. Read article comprehensive review in Paperium.net: When to Ensemble: Identifying Token-Level Points for Stable and Fast LLMEnsembling 🤖 This analysis and review was primarily generated and structured by an AI . The content is provided for informational and quick-review purposes.  ( 23 min )

Everyone is racing to learn “prompt engineering.” Courses. Cheat sheets. Templates. Hacks. But here’s the uncomfortable truth most people won’t say out loud: Prompt engineering will not make you stand out anymore, but prompt thinking will. Prompt engineering teaches you how to talk to AI. One is a skill. And only one of them will matter in the AI-native workforce. The Problem With How People Learn Prompting Today People treat prompting like: memorising shortcuts collecting prompt templates copying pre-written scripts This worked in 2023. Why? Because everyone now has access to the same templates. If a skill can be copy-pasted, it cannot create differentiation. Prompt engineering is becoming a baseline literacy, not an advantage. To rise above the noise, you need to shift from using prompts…  ( 9 min )

Managing metadata within your Excel files is more than just good practice; it's a critical component of data governance, security, and automation in today's digital landscape. Have you ever found yourself manually updating author names, company details, or project identifiers across numerous spreadsheets? Or perhaps you've needed to ensure sensitive information embedded in Excel Properties .NET is removed before sharing a document? Manually handling these tasks is not only tedious but also prone to errors. This article delves into how you can programmatically read and remove Document Properties C# from Excel files using the powerful Spire.XLS for .NET library. We'll explore how to leverage C# to automate these essential tasks, providing you with a robust solution for managing your C# Excel…  ( 9 min )

1. Problem Description When using the KT148A serial version voice chip for music playback, the microcontroller (MCU) malfunctions immediately. Measurements reveal significant power supply fluctuations during music playback initiation. According to the manual, this is likely caused by insufficient drive capability. However, the same power supply works normally when connected to the official test board. The root cause is clearly power supply instability - a common issue resolvable through basic circuit design principles. Power Supply Configurations: The KT148A chip has two power supply configurations (refer to power supply notes in the upper-right corner of the figure). Current Consumption Factors: Speaker impedance and power rating (larger speakers → higher current draw) Playback volume (higher volume → greater power consumption) Maximum drive capability: Approximately 200 mA Reference: Official test board minimum system schematic Use thicker power traces to reduce voltage drop Keep KT148A power traces as short as possible to minimize resistance and interference Add a decoupling capacitor at KT148A power input: Recommended: Electrolytic capacitor (e.g., 47μF/16V) or similar Ensure stable and robust power source Avoid using: Long/thin Dupont jumper wires Weak power supplies Such setups cause severe voltage fluctuations leading to chip resets or MCU abnormalities Note: These are fundamental power design principles. Review basic circuit design if necessary. If experiencing voice data download issues, use the official full-featured download board for testing (refer to diagram below).  ( 6 min )

Hi everyone, I’m currently working on a small web project and I’m splitting my workflow between the backend and frontend since I’ll need a “heavy” processing component for automated spatial operations. This part mainly involves running scripts that perform spatial tasks such as calculating point distances, handling geometry intersections, and updating labels based on spatial results. Apart from that, the project also includes the usual web elements — a standard database, content pages, multimedia, etc. So far, I’ve been considering Strapi for the backend and Vercel for the frontend, but I suspect I’ll need an additional service to handle the spatial processing layer. Has anyone here worked on something similar (ideally keeping costs low)? Thanks in advance for any advice or experiences you can share! 😊  ( 6 min )

In SafeLine version 6.6.0 and above, you can easily host websites using static files. This guide will walk you through the steps to set up a site using static resources and provide solutions for common issues you might encounter. When adding a new site in SafeLine, choose the Static Files option for site creation. After setting up the site, try visiting the site’s URL. If you see the default page, it means the static hosting setup was successful. Once the default page is visible, you can go to the Site Details section and upload your custom static files. If your static files exceed the upload limit, you can manually upload them to the appropriate directory on the WAF server. Directory path: installation_directory/resources/nginx/static/static_${SITE_ID} You can find the SITE_ID by checking the site details URL. For example, if the URL is https://xxxx:9443/sites/detail?id=12, then the site ID is 12. By following these steps, you’ll be able to quickly host static websites using SafeLine and manage your site with ease! GitHub: https://ly.safepoint.cloud/rZGPJRF https://ly.safepoint.cloud/eGtfrcF https://ly.safepoint.cloud/DQywpL7  ( 6 min )

Most face-recognition systems fail in real life. The solution is not “more detection.” 🚀 Why SORT Changes Everything SORT (Simple Online & Real-Time Tracking) gives you: Persistent IDs across frames No flickering names when a person turns their head High FPS (because you don’t detect every frame) Stable embeddings (recognize once → reuse for multiple frames) Think of SORT as the glue that holds your face-recognition pipeline together. 🔥 The Recognition Pipeline (Super Simple) if frame_id % 3 == 0: faces = face_app.get(frame) 2️⃣ Use SORT to track faces between detections tracked = tracker.update(detections) 3️⃣ Assign embeddings via IoU matching for det_bbox, det_emb in last_face_map.items(): if compute_iou(track_bbox, det_bbox) > 0.45: track_embeddings[track_id] = det_e…  ( 7 min )

Here’s a strong recommendation for an open-source WAF (Web Application Firewall) that’s been developed for nearly 10 years. It comes in both community and professional editions, and the community edition (free) is more than capable of handling most use cases. Let’s start with the basics for those who might not be familiar: A WAF (Web Application Firewall) is a security solution deployed in front of websites at the application layer, offering protection through the following features: Web Vulnerability Protection: Detects and blocks common web attacks like SQL injection, XSS (cross-site scripting), and more via predefined rules. Anti-CC Attack: Provides protection against large-scale attacks like DDoS by filtering malicious traffic. Access Control: Allows filtering based on IP add…  ( 7 min )

SafeLine is a Web Application Firewall (WAF) developed by Chaitin Technology. It leverages advanced technologies like big data and machine learning to create a network attack detection system. SafeLine continuously monitors and analyzes global threat intelligence, attack data, and vulnerability information in real time. This enables it to quickly identify and detect unknown security threats, accurately determine the type and source of attacks, and promptly issue alerts. Additionally, SafeLine features a proprietary intelligent defense engine and a user-friendly visual management interface, providing efficient attack prevention and comprehensive security monitoring. This makes it an essential tool for delivering secure and reliable cloud security services to users. You can choose the instal…  ( 7 min )

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Introduction: The Inciting Incident A few days ago, my trusty Raspberry Pi 4—the backbone of my home network—died. A power outage corrupted its SD card, and my entire stack of services went dark. What began as a simple restore became an opportunity. Instead of just rebuilding, I decided to re-architect everything to be more resilient, more powerful, and frankly, more fun. This document is the master build log for that project. It contains every file, every configuration, every command, and every critical fix required to build this stack from a fresh OS install. This is the blueprint for a resilient, self-aware, and fully automated home server. Rock-Solid Foundation: Static IPs and resilient storage that survives a boot failure. Containerized Services: A full Docker stack for Plex, Pi-h…  ( 15 min )

HPSR Proxy Stack es una solución open-source que convierte cualquier VPS en un servidor proxy HTTPS profesional con certificados SSL válidos de Let's Encrypt, autenticación HTTP Basic y cifrado TLS 1.2+. Todo automatizado con Docker y listo en menos de 10 minutos. Es un stack completo basado en Docker que combina las mejores herramientas open-source: Squid Proxy: El servidor proxy HTTP/HTTPS más robusto y confiable Stunnel: Túnel SSL/TLS para cifrado end-to-end con certificados válidos Let's Encrypt: Certificados SSL gratuitos reconocidos por todos los navegadores Dante SOCKS5: Servidor SOCKS5 opcional para casos de uso avanzados Docker Compose: Orquestación simple de todos los servicios Todo preconfigurado con scripts de instalación automatizados y listo para producción. Los proxies comer…  ( 11 min )

Turning Text into Pictures: How AI Gets Faster and Smarter Ever wondered how a computer could read a whole book in the time it takes to glance at a photo? Researchers have discovered a clever trick: they turn long passages of text into images and let a vision‑language model do the heavy lifting. The breakthrough means the AI can answer questions, analyze code, or summarize documents up to a million words long without choking on memory or speed limits. This innovation not only speeds up everyday AI tasks but also opens doors for smarter document‑reading apps and faster training of future models. Stay curious—sometimes the simplest picture tells the biggest story. Read article comprehensive review in Paperium.net: Glyph: Scaling Context Windows via Visual-Text Compression 🤖 This analysis and review was primarily generated and structured by an AI . The content is provided for informational and quick-review purposes.  ( 23 min )

I caught ChatGPT lying to me today. Not in the abstract. Not about trivia. This was code. Multi-file Python project. Real-world, production-bound work. ChatGPT promised me: "This is the final version. Everything should now work." But when I diffed the file? Lexicons were gone. Helper functions silently removed. Critical logic quietly erased. Comments preserved to fake continuity. No syntax errors. No loud failures. Just landmines—waiting to be stepped on. LLMs hallucinate stability. They give confident, syntax-perfect answers that feel right—but don’t preserve the fragile architecture you’ve spent days building. Here’s what this incident reminded me: LLMs don’t remember previous files. If your pipeline relies on shared imports or implicit contracts, those can (and will) be dropped. LLMs don’t write tests. If you’re not testing, you’re not just flying blind—you’re flying while being lied to. LLMs don’t think like your teammates. They’ll change the internal API of your tool and not even warn you. ChatGPT is an amazing tool. I’ve used it to: Refactor faster Learn new libraries Scaffold entire services Even debug tricky edge cases But that doesn’t mean it’s reliable. Treat it like the world’s most helpful—but untrustworthy—intern. 🔍 Always diff the output. ✅ Don’t merge without tests. 🧠 Don’t believe it when it says “final version.” 🛑 Pause when it doesn’t ask you for clarification. Trust, but grep. ChatGPT is brilliant. But it doesn’t love your code like you do. Guard your repo. I had chatGPT write this article and you can be sure that I read and proofed it. Posted by a dev who almost shipped broken production code because the robot was too confident.  ( 6 min )

1. Uninstallation and Cleanup Uninstall Node.js. And delete all npm and Next-related folders. Confirm by running: node -v next -v npm -v 2. Node.js Installation Install Node.js from the following link: https://nodejs.org/ja/download (Choose the Windows Installer (.msi) link toward the bottom of the page.) Confirm by running: node -v npm -v 3. Next.js Project Setup Navigate to the directory where you want to create your project: cd C:\Users\hiroo Set up the Next.js project. (Change the name): npx create-next-app@latest my-nextjs-app Start the project: npm run dev OK, close the command line once (The rest is omitted. Refer to dev diary 20251108 for details.) 4. Amplify Gen 2 Sandbox Start the sandbox: npx @aws-amplify/backend-cli sandbox Note: **Delete any remaining resources in AWS …  ( 8 min )

Check out this Loader using html/css 🚀  ( 5 min )

Intro There are lots of articles about Clean Architecture: Google guide Google search Google Gemini he, he.. So, I don't wanna copy those guides and my advice is read them carefully. But I have to write about domain layer for excluding confusion of terms. There is something wrong with understanding domain layer in the Android development context. Here's the quote from the Google guide: Note: The term "domain layer" is used in other software architectures, such as "clean" architecture, and has a different meaning there. Don't confuse the definition of "domain layer" defined in the Android official architecture guidance with other definitions you may have read elsewhere. There may be subtle but important differences. The common pattern of software architecture says that the domain layer is…  ( 8 min )

Building Type-Safe CLIs in Python with Maybe Monads I got tired of writing the same input validation code for every CLI tool. You know the pattern: parse a string, check if it's valid, print an error message, ask again. For every single argument. Here's what I used to write: while True: port_str = input("Enter port: ") try: port = int(port_str) if 1 <= port <= 65535: break else: print("Port must be between 1 and 65535") except ValueError: print("Port must be a valid integer") This works, but it's not composable. You can't reuse the validation logic. You can't combine validators. And error handling is scattered across try/except blocks. I built valid8r to solve this using Maybe monads. Instead of raising exceptions, pars…  ( 8 min )

S4 2.0 Is Incredible! Andrew Huang dives into the new Torso S4 2.0, showcasing its modular devices, FX, tempo controls, and performance tricks. He breaks down the Mix, Track, Mod, and Scenes pages, demos the built-in mic, MIDI jamming, live looper and processor, and instant resampling—plus shares his final thoughts on why it’s a game-changer. He also plugs Torso Electronics, highlights his Discord community for music stems, and peppers the vid with links to his socials, gear recs, and Patreon for behind-the-scenes bonuses. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

We’ve reached the final part of this tutorial series! If you’re following along from Part 4, you can continue as is. But if you want to reset your repo or make sure you're on the correct branch: # Repo git clone git@github.com:BRIKEV/twd-docs-tutorial.git git reset --hard git clean -d -f git checkout 05-coverage npm run serve:dev We’ll use the vite-plugin-istanbul plugin to instrument our code and generate coverage data. npm i --save-dev vite-plugin-istanbul Then, open your vite.config.ts and add the plugin: /// import path from "path" import tailwindcss from "@tailwindcss/vite" import { defineConfig } from 'vite' import react from '@vitejs/plugin-react' // add plugin for code coverage import istanbul from 'vite-plugin-istanbul'; // https://vite.dev/config/ …  ( 9 min )

In Part 3, we explored one of TWD’s core features — network mocking — and completed our first full set of tests. running those tests in the terminal so we can integrate them into a CI workflow. To do this, we’ll use Puppeteer and one of TWD’s utilities, reportResults, to display test results directly in the console. If you’re following along from Part 3, you can continue as is. But if you want to reset your repo or make sure you're on the correct branch: # Repo git clone git@github.com:BRIKEV/twd-docs-tutorial.git git reset --hard git clean -d -f git checkout 04-ci-integration npm run serve:dev TWD exposes its runner on the window object, which means you can programmatically execute your tests from any environment — including tools like Puppeteer. Here’s the basic version of that script: …  ( 8 min )

In Part 2, we explored assertions, selectors, and user interactions in TWD. Now, it’s time to move to the /todos page — which brings more realistic functionality: Display Todos Create Todos Remove Todos This page uses an API created with json-server. That’s where mocking comes in. In TWD, we recommend mocking your network requests so you can test your frontend without backend dependencies. This approach brings several advantages: You can simulate any scenario: success, errors, or missing data. You can validate the UX for those edge cases. You can reproduce bugs easily by mocking the exact request that caused them. To achieve this, TWD provides utilities for mocking requests using Service Workers that intercept network traffic. Let’s dive in. If you’re following along from Part 2, you can c…  ( 11 min )

Baseten, the AI infrastructure company recently valued at $2.15 billion, is making its most significant product pivot yet: a full-scale push into model training that could reshape how enterprises wean themselves off dependence on OpenAI and other closed-source AI providers. The San Francisco-based company announced Thursday the general availability of Baseten Training, an infrastructure platform designed to help companies fine-tune open-source AI models without the operational headaches of managing GPU clusters, multi-node orchestration, or cloud capacity planning. The move is a calculated expansion beyond Baseten's core inference business, driven by what CEO Amir Haghighat describes as relentless customer demand and a strategic imperative to capture the full lifecycle of AI deployment. "W…

Presented by Celonis After a year of boardroom declarations about “AI transformation,” this was the week where enterprise leaders came together to talk about what actually works. Speaking from the stage at Celosphere in Munich, Celonis co-founder and co-CEO Alexander Rinke set the tone early in his keynote: “Only 11 % of companies are seeing measurable benefits from AI projects today,” he said. “That’s not an adoption problem. That’s a context problem.” It’s a sentiment familiar to anyone who’s tried to deploy AI inside a large enterprise. You can’t automate what you don’t understand — and most organizations still lack a unified picture of how work in their companies really gets done. Celonis’ answer, showcased across three days at the company’s annual event, was less about new tech acron…

The U.K.'s central bank said on Monday it is proposing "temporary" limits of 20,000 pounds ($26,300) per coin for individuals and 10 million pounds for businesses.  ( 32 min )

The market's gains were fueled by President Donald Trump's announcement of a potential tariff dividend as well as movement towards reopening of the government.  ( 31 min )

Michael Saylor and team purchased 487 bitcoin over the past few days, bringing company holdings to 641,692 coins.  ( 30 min )

The bonds mark Hong Kong's third digital bond sale since 2023 and are part of its push to become a leading global hub for tokenized assets.  ( 31 min )

Rumble unveiled three major deals with Tether and Northern Data, expanding its AI infrastructure, ad business and cloud capacity.  ( 31 min )

Your day-ahead look for Nov. 10, 2025  ( 36 min )

Bitcoin steadied above $100,000 after two weeks of losses, while altcoins rallied on expectations that President Trump’s proposed $2,000 tariff dividend could inject retail liquidity into the market.  ( 33 min )

Bitcoin leads gains above $106,000, yet a CME gap hints at potential short-term volatility.  ( 31 min )

Jim Chanos closed his 11-month short on Strategy as multiple to net asset value compressed sharply.  ( 31 min )

Indirect measures like tax cuts may not have as much bullish impact as direct checks.  ( 31 min )

The broker reiterated its buy rating on the stock while raising its price target to $70 from $42.  ( 29 min )

The token has support at $2.60 and resistance at the $2.93 level.  ( 30 min )

Your look at what's coming in the week starting Nov. 10.  ( 33 min )

The idea of direct household payments, even hypothetical, revived the same risk-on reflex that drove digital assets during the pandemic-era stimulus rounds.  ( 31 min )

Zenrock's wrapped Zcash token, zenZEC, has achieved $15 million in trading volume on the Solana blockchain since its launch on Oct. 31.  ( 31 min )

Ledger secures about $100 billion worth of bitcoin for its customers.  ( 29 min )

Bitcoin ETF outflows show institutions are trimming risk, not abandoning crypto, as trading stays off-chain and liquidity begins to improve.  ( 30 min )

Former President Trump's comments on tariffs spurred interest in speculative assets, boosting meme coin sentiment.  ( 32 min )

Canary Capital, Bitwise, Franklin Templeton, and 21Shares filed amended S-1 registration statements for spot XRP exchange-traded funds, introducing standardized listing language designed to streamline SEC review under existing 8(a) procedures.  ( 32 min )

Prediction markets flipped overnight after Senate negotiators reached a bipartisan funding deal, sending crypto and risk assets higher on expectations that Washington will reopen before Veterans Day.  ( 31 min )

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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Why it’s so hard to bust the weather control conspiracy theory It was October 2024, and Hurricane Helene had just devastated the US Southeast. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia found an abstract…  ( 21 min )

Six consortiums have reportedly submitted bids to develop Malaysia’s long-awaited multi-lane free flow (MLFF) toll collection system. According to The Edge Malaysia, the request for proposal (RFP) was issued by the Ministry of Works, with submissions closing on 16 October. The following are the alleged entities suggested by the publication’s sources: JustGo Digital Bhd, a […] The post Six Bidders Reportedly In The Running To Develop Malaysia’s MLFF Toll System appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 34 min )

It’s that time of the year again. The 11.11 sale is upon us, and as per usual, we have curated a selection of the product deals. We’ve already covered smartphones here, as well as PCs and laptops. This time, we’re looking at some of the deals for tablets. Of course, this is by no means […] The post Here Are The 11.11 Deals For Tablets appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 35 min )

Toyota Motor Thailand has unveiled the ninth-generation Hilux, now officially named the Hilux Travo. For the first time, the iconic pickup is offered as a Battery Electric Vehicle (BEV). The debut comes after leaks from an earlier presentation at the 2025 Japan Mobility Show. In terms of design, the BEV Hilux features a redesigned front […] The post Toyota Unveils Ninth-Generation Hilux Travo With First-Ever BEV Variant appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 35 min )

ONE-NETBOOK has officially announced the new OneXFly Apex handheld gaming console, the successor to the OneXPlayer F1 Pro. The company claims, through the official Indiegogo page, that the device is the most powerful 8-inch gaming handheld in the world. The company also boasts that it is the world’s first liquid-cooled handheld with a swappable 85Wh […] The post The OneXFly Apex Is A Handheld Console With A 85Wh Replaceable External Battery appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 35 min )

According to the PDRM’s Commercial Crime Investigation Department (CCID), e-commerce crimes are on the rise. In a statement posted to its official Facebook page, CCID revealed that 12,297 cases were recorded from January to October this year, marking a 97% rise compared to last year. Moreover, the surge in cases is linked to losses of […] The post E-Commerce Fraud Surges By 97%; RM110 Million In Losses Recorded appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 34 min )

The annual 11.11 sale is in full swing, and just as we categorise what we found to be some of the better deals for smartphones in this double-digit month, this article will cover ongoing deals currently being offered by the majority of PC and gaming brands. In this list, and much like our smartphones list, […] The post 11.11 Sale: Here Are Some Deals For PC, Laptops And Other Goodies appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 38 min )

The iconic Renault Twingo has taken a new form, a fully electric hatchback known as the Twingo E-Tech. The new-generation hatchback is offered in two variants: Evolution and Techno. Design-wise, the EV still possesses the same silhouette as its predecessors, with a refreshed exterior and interior. The front fascia features a newly designed half-moon-shaped LED […] The post Renault Twingo Returns As All-Electric Twingo E-Tech appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 35 min )

Maybank, via its official website, has announced that it will soon restrict access to its online banking platforms from devices and web browsers running outdated or unsupported software. The move, according to the bank, is part of its continued efforts to ensure a safer and more secure digital banking experience for its customers. The restriction […] The post Maybank To Restrict Access From Outdated Devices And Browsers appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 34 min )

HONOR recently confirmed that it will be bringing the Magic8 Pro to our shores soon. Ahead of the local launch, the brand showcased some of the flagship phone’s features, namely its photography capabilities. To best highlight the device’s imaging system, the company held an event on the 98th Floor of Merdeka 118. The Magic8 Pro […] The post HONOR Showcases Magic8 Pro Camera Ahead Of Malaysia Launch appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 35 min )

Mozilla officially announced that it will be giving its Firefox browser a brand refresh. And to celebrate this change, the company also revealed Kit, the browser’s new mascot. “The Firefox brand is getting a refresh and you get the first look,” the official Mozilla landing page reads. ‘Kit’s our new mascot and your new companion […] The post Mozilla Announces Kit, Firefox’s New Mascot appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 34 min )

Shell Malaysia has officially launched its new first-party application for the EV scene, Shell Recharge. In conjunction with the launch, the fuel company is offering a special one-day promotion on 11 November 2025, nationwide from 12:00 a.m. to 11:59 p.m., where EV drivers who charge at Shell Recharge High-Performance Charging (HPC) sites will enjoy a […] The post Shell Malaysia Launches Shell Recharge App With Special 11.11 EV Charging Promotion appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 35 min )

Intel has filed a lawsuit against a former software engineer accused of stealing tens of thousands of confidential files from the company, including data classified as “Top Secret.” The case, first reported by The Mercury News, centres on Jinfeng Luo, who joined the company in 2014 and was terminated from his position in July last […] The post Intel Sues Former Engineer For Allegedly Stealing “Top Secret” Files appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 34 min )

Grab has been initiating a lot of interesting initiatives as of late, some of which are stranger than others (looking at you, ChatGPT collaboration). Now, the Singaporean-based company officially kick off a simpler initiative by comparison: rebranding its GrabRewards programme to GrabCoins. Despite this change, it’s worth noting that the system will largely stay the […] The post Grab Rebrands GrabRewards To GrabCoins appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 34 min )

Apple is said to be working on a major upgrade to its satellite capabilities for iPhone, potentially expanding what users can do without mobile or Wi-Fi coverage. According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, the company is preparing to go beyond emergency calls and text-based messaging by adding several new satellite-powered functions in future updates. In its […] The post Apple Reportedly Planning Major Expansion Of iPhone Satellite Features appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 34 min )

Creative GPU modding is nothing new at this point, and as it has always been the case, some modders tend to take things a step too far. For one gamer and Redditor, they decided to take their ASUS ROG Astral RTX 5080 and transform it into a small yet functioning skateboard. Redditor ashleysaidwhat posted a […] The post Gamer Transforms ASUS ROG Astral RTX 5080 Into A Skateboard appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 33 min )

Samsung recently announced that it will be showing off its new LPDDR6 memory standard during CES 2026. The next generation memory modules will be built on an advanced 12nm process and support super-fast bandwidth speeds of up to 10.7 Gbps. As AI, edge computing, and mobile platforms continue to evolve, the demand for faster, more […] The post Samsung To Showcase LPDDR6 Memory At CES 2026 appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 34 min )

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Cross-Modal Knowledge Distillation for sustainable aquaculture monitoring systems with embodied agent feedback loops Introduction It all started when I spent a week at a remote aquaculture facility in Norway, watching marine biologists struggle with terabytes of underwater footage. They were manually counting fish, assessing health conditions, and monitoring feeding patterns—tasks that seemed perfect for AI automation. While exploring multimodal AI systems, I discovered that the real challenge wasn't just processing visual data, but creating systems that could learn from multiple sensory inputs and adapt to changing aquatic environments. During my investigation of sustainable aquaculture monitoring, I found that traditional single-modal approaches were fundamentally limited. W…  ( 11 min )

November 10, 2025 In the volatile theater of cryptocurrency, few stories encapsulate the peril of narrative over substance quite like that of **AltitudeDeFi ($ALTD)—a project that soared on promise in 2023, only to vanish without explanation, leaving behind little more than a frozen website and scattered investors nursing steep losses. Launched in August 2023 amid a wave of cross-chain optimism, AltitudeDeFi presented itself as a next-generation interoperability protocol, boasting integration with LayerZero, a respected messaging layer used by established projects like Stargate and Radiant. Its pitch was ambitious: bridges to seven major blockchains—Ethereum, Avalanche, BNB Chain, Arbitrum, Optimism, Polygon, and Base—and a vision of seamless, multi-chain liquidity. For a moment, the mark…  ( 7 min )

In the previous article, we added syntax highlighting for our Markdown code blocks. But you might have noticed that the document page title ({{ page_title }}) is still hardcoded in the main.py route function ("page_title": "Hello, Markdown!"). This is very inflexible. Does this mean we have to modify the code every time we add a new document? A documentation site needs to be flexible, allowing for articles to be added or removed at any time. The article's metadata—like its title, author, and date—should be defined within the Markdown file itself, just like the content. In this article, we will introduce Frontmatter (a common specification for defining metadata at the top of a Markdown file) and enable FastAPI to parse it, allowing us to load metadata dynamically. We will use python-frontma…  ( 8 min )

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Simon Painter’s NDC Copenhagen 2025 talk dives into ML.NET—Microsoft’s easy-to-use SDK for adding machine learning to your .NET apps—and shows how to build a Titanic survival predictor using C#, Visual Studio, and Kaggle’s Titanic dataset. He busts the myth that ML only belongs in Python, demonstrating that you can train high-quality models right in Visual Studio with just a few clicks. And yes, he warns, there are icebergs ahead… Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

This is a submission for Frontend Challenge - Halloween Edition, CSS Art, by Stefan Donosa. The inspiration behind this piece was the desire to create a "maximalist" Halloween scene, a single artboard that captures the entire essence of the holiday in one diorama. I wanted to move beyond a simple animation and build a complete, immersive digital painting using only CSS. The central theme is a haunted cabin perched precariously on a hill, set against a supernatural, malevolent sky. The color palette of the sky (blue-violet-orange-red) and the stark, white spectral moon were the starting points for setting a tense and magical atmosphere. I wanted the scene to feel "alive," so I integrated classic horror elements: an ancient graveyard, a vigilant black cat, ethereal ghosts, a sinisterly glowi…  ( 7 min )

This post contains an explaination on how the RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) architecture works and some examples. https://github.com/Franky5831/Local-rag-example Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is a popular alternative to fine-tuning large language models, it allows for more flexible content generation by leveraging pre-trained models and a retrieval mechanism. A popular example of RAG is Google's new AI Overview tool. When you search for something on Google the overview tool takes the top results from the search and tries to answer to your question using a RAG system. This is a perfect usecase for RAG, the data that is being fetched from search results is constantly changing, it would be impossible to train the model on new data each time someone makes an update, RAG allows more flexibility at the small cost of performance. If you happen to have any questions feel free to open a GitHub issue, I'd be happy to help. This repo takes great inspiration from Private rag example by Timescale.  ( 6 min )

Can AI Make Photo Edits Look Totally Real? Ever wondered why a removed object sometimes leaves a ghostly shadow behind? Scientists have built a new test called PICABench to see how close today’s AI tools are to fixing those invisible details. physical realism PICABench checks, from light tricks to tiny movements. Stay tuned for the next leap in realistic image editing! The future of pictures is brighter – and more believable – than ever. Read article comprehensive review in Paperium.net: PICABench: How Far Are We from Physically Realistic Image Editing? 🤖 This analysis and review was primarily generated and structured by an AI . The content is provided for informational and quick-review purposes.  ( 23 min )

Generative AI is accelerating faster than ever, yet many beginners still struggle to understand one of the most important questions: "When should I use RAG, and when should I use Fine-tuning?" This article breaks it down in the simplest, most practical way — with diagrams, real-world examples, and use cases you can immediately apply. 🚀 Introduction Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT, Llama, and Mistral come with powerful general knowledge. Your company’s data Your style Your rules To achieve this, two major techniques exist: RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) Fine-tuning They solve different problems — and understanding them can save you time, money, and effort. Let's break them down. 🧠 What is Fine-tuning? Fine-tuning simply means: Teaching the model new behavior by giving it examp…  ( 8 min )

Nova Twins storm through a four-song Tiny Desk set with thunderous distorted bass, hip-hop beats and raspy vocals. Kicking off with the in-your-face “Cleopatra” and tackling inner demons on “Monsters,” Georgia South and Amy Love even duck under the desk to tweak their spaceship-sized pedalboards mid-show. “Hummingbird” buzzes to life via a supernatural Harp Blaster mic, and drummer Jake Woodward helps them close out with full-on rock fury on “Choose Your Fighter.” It’s a bold reminder that nice, polite girls can shred—and then some. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

4 ChatGPT Hacks that Cut Your Workload in Half Learn four killer techniques—Prompt Reversal to reverse-engineer perfect prompts, the 5-Minute Amplifier to spin one idea into multiple formats, the Red Team method for AI self-critique, and Blueprint Scaffolding to force ChatGPT to show its reasoning before it writes. Each hack comes with real examples and timestamps so you can plug them into your workflow right away. These tricks have literally sliced my AI time in half—no matter your role or industry. Plus, you’ll get a free ChatGPT ebook, a detailed blog post, and access to waitlists for next-level AI and productivity courses to keep the momentum going. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Are you eager to dive into the world of Roblox game development in 2025? Lua, the scripting language used in Roblox, is an excellent starting point for aspiring developers. This guide will walk you through the basics of Lua in Roblox, offering tips, resources, and best practices to get you coding in no time! Lua is a lightweight, high-level programming language that is popular for game development due to its simplicity and ease of use. In Roblox, Lua is the primary language for scripting, allowing you to create interactive games. Its low learning curve makes it ideal for beginners. Before you begin coding, here are the steps you need to follow: To start coding with Lua, you'll need Roblox Studio, the platform's official development environment. With an intuitive interface, Roblox Studio pr…  ( 7 min )

Introduction CanopySplit is a multi-layer DeFi protocol that transforms idle capital into climate impact. Users deposit WETH, earn yield through Aave v3, and automatically split 100% of profits among climate recipients—all while keeping their principal withdrawable at any time. This technical deep-dive covers: Octant V2 Yield Donating Strategy architecture ERC-4626 vault integration with Aave v3 Epoch-based donation splitting mechanics Custom Uniswap v4 hook for swap fee donations Production deployment challenges on Sepolia Live on Sepolia: Strategy: 0x0D1d8AE2dD0e4B06ca0Ef2949150eb021cAf6Ce9 Splitter: 0xda5fA1c26Ec29497C2B103B385569286B30EC248 Asset (WETH): 0xC558DBdd856501FCd9aaF1E62eae57A9F0629a3c Architecture Overview ┌─────────────┐ │ User Wallet │ └──────┬────…  ( 11 min )

Everything Wrong With Thunderbolts* (The New Avengers) In 20 Minutes Or Less CinemaSins is back with a rapid‐fire roast of Thunderbolts, pointing out all the “sins” you can cram into 20 minutes—yet still asking, “Is this movie kinda great?” Along the way, they link to their main site, extra YouTube channels (@TVSins, @commercialsins, @cinemasinspodcastnetwork), a quick poll to learn about you, and a Patreon if you want to keep the sin machine running. They also roll credits for their writing team (Jeremy, Chris, Aaron, Jonathan, Deneé, Ian, Daniel) with Twitter/Instagram handles, plus all the community hangouts: Discord, Reddit, Instagram, TikTok, and even Jeremy’s book. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

How I reverse-engineered Wall Street's approach to energy trading and built a production-ready quantitative pricing system Imagine you're an energy trader staring at a complex proposal: a client wants to store 1 million units of natural gas for 6 months. They'll inject in summer when prices are low and withdraw in winter when prices typically spike. The question every trading desk faces: "What's the fair price for this storage contract?" This isn't academic it's the exact challenge I tackled in a JPMorgan Chase quantitative research simulation. The result? A sophisticated valuation engine that bridges the gap between complex energy markets and executable trading decisions. At its core, my system solves the fundamental equation of energy storage: Contract Value = (Withdrawal Revenue - Injec…  ( 10 min )

If you’ve ever studied the TDD Gears model from TDD Buddy , you’ll know it’s one of the clearest ways to explain how our thinking evolves when practicing Test-Driven Development. Each gear represents a different scale of thought and a level of strictness in applying practices, while the underlying principles remain constant. In recent months, I’ve found myself drawing a strong parallel between the TDD Gears model and how we use AI assistants such as ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, or Claude. The way we “shift gears” when coding, designing, or debugging feels remarkably similar to how we move through the gears of TDD. In both, the key is to maintain discipline, reflection, and professionalism regardless of speed. This article maps the TDD Gears to AI Assistant Gears showing how we can approach AI …  ( 10 min )

Why I Wrote This Last week, I was debugging a complex algorithm at 2 AM when something clicked. I wasn't just organizing data I was organizing life itself. The way I structured my code mirrored how I structure my days, my priorities, my relationships. Lists that grew and shrank. Tuples that never changed. Sets that filtered out the noise. It hit me: We're all writing code, whether we realize it or not. As developers, we spend years mastering syntax and algorithms. But what if these structures we use daily are actually teaching us something deeper about being human? I wrote this because I believe the most powerful code we'll ever write isn't in our IDE it's in how we architect our lives. As a developer, I spend hours thinking about data structures. But recently, I discovered something pro…  ( 8 min )

If you are diving into the world of Roblox game development in 2025, learning easy Lua scripts can significantly boost your productivity and creativity. Lua, a lightweight, high-level programming language, is primarily used for scripting in Roblox, providing game developers with robust tools to create interactive and engaging experiences. Lua's simplicity and flexibility make it an ideal language for beginners and seasoned developers alike. Whether you want to create unique game mechanics, control the game flow, or interact with players, Lua facilitates these tasks seamlessly. In 2025, with updates and improvements, Lua continues to thrive as a core component of Roblox game development explore the future of lua coding. Getting started with Lua scripts in Roblox doesn't require a steep lear…  ( 7 min )

Understanding how vehicle characteristics affect fuel efficiency is a classic regression problem — and an excellent way to explore tree-based models like Decision Trees, Random Forests, and XGBoost. In this project, I analyzed a dataset of cars and built models to predict fuel efficiency (MPG) with different configurations. The dataset contained various vehicle features, including: vehicle_weight engine_displacement horsepower acceleration model_year origin fuel_type To ensure data consistency, all missing values were filled with zeros. train/validation/test split (60%/20%/20%), using a random_state=1 for reproducibility. Next, I used DictVectorizer(sparse=True) to convert categorical and numerical features into a format suitable for scikit-learn models. I began with a Decision Tree Regres…  ( 7 min )

What Is an Array? In short, an array is a sequence of values stored contiguously (back-to-back) in memory. When an array is created, the computer allocates a continuous block of memory large enough for all its elements. For example, an array of three integers will occupy 12 bytes in total (since an integer is typically 4 bytes), with the four bytes for each integer stored immediately next to the next. Why Arrays Are Zero-Indexed When an array is created, the computer: Allocates a contiguous block of memory large enough for all elements. So when you write: let numbers = [10, 20, 30]; The computer knows: The base address (say, 0x1000) points to the first element (10). Each integer takes 4 bytes. Therefore: numbers[0] → address 0x1000 numbers[1] → address 0x1004 numbers[2] → address 0x1008 …  ( 10 min )

CSS is one of those things that looks simple, until you actually try to reason about it. Most people consider CSS an easy language to learn, yet somehow, LLMs that can solve calculus problems still get defeated by a few lines of CSS. In this article, I'll share my thoughts on why Generative AIs struggle to create good layouts, and how TailwindCSS helps them overcome this challenge. Let's imagine we're using CSS the way the web originally intended, with a separate CSS file, defined selectors, and a linked stylesheet. In this setup, let's discuss the CSS nature. In CSS a single rule like position: relative can completely alter the layout and even all other properties behavior. So one line might behave in many different ways, depending on where it used. By design, it's impossible to look at a…  ( 7 min )

What if Your AI App Could Generate Revenue in Two Ways Simultaneously? In the rapidly evolving landscape of AI applications, developers face a common challenge: monetizing their creations without compromising the user experience. With AI apps exploding in popularity, the pressure to generate revenue is palpable. But what if there was a way to create a sustainable model that benefits developers, advertisers, and users alike? Enter Monetzly—an innovative platform that allows you to monetize your AI applications in a dual revenue revolution. Imagine earning revenue not just from your AI app, but also by hosting contextually relevant ads, all while maintaining a seamless user experience. Monetzly is the first platform to offer this dual-earning capability specifically designed for AI-driven …  ( 7 min )

Part 1: the simplest thing that could possibly work Welcome to the first post in a series that dives into the world of distributed systems building on Kubernetes, using as a subject the "Todo application" of systems design: a URL shortener we'll call Flipr 🐬. The goal is to build an actual, functioning, deployable system, designed to scale from a single instance to a distributed cluster on Kubernetes. Photo by Louan García on Unsplash This series focuses on building a distributed, scalable URL shortener and the architectural decisions behind it. To keep that focus sharp, I'm intentionally omitting several things that would be critical in a production system, such as: No unit tests: focus is on architectural evolution, not a production-ready codebase Minimal input validation: basic checks…  ( 13 min )

كيفاش وزارة الدفاع الأمريكية كانت سبّاقة فالتكنولوجيا اللي كنعرفوها اليوم 👀 المقدّمة: اليد الخفية اللي بنت العالم الرقمي ديالنا نهار كتفيق، كتشعل التليفون، كتسول "سيري" على الجو، ولا كتشوف فين وصل الطاكسي ديالك فـ الخريطة... كل هادشي كيدور على تكنولوجيا معمّرة سنين ضوئية فالذكاء والتعقيد. تزادت فالمختبرات ديال وزارة الدفاع الأمريكية (DoD)، سنين قبل ما يسمع بها الناس العاديين؟ كطالب فالهندسة المعلوماتية، بديت نكتاشف أن الجيش الأمريكي ماشي غير مستعمل للتكنولوجيا، هو كان السبّاق والمكتشف الأول. بزاف من الحوايج اللي كنعتابروها "جديدة" اليوم، أصلها كان عسكري وبعيد فالزمن. ⚙️ البداية: كيفاش الحاجة كتولّد الابتكار المؤسسات العسكرية ما كتفكّرش بحال الشركات. DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency). "نتجنّبو المفاجآت الاستراتيجية… و نصنعو المفاجآت الاستراتيجية." بمعنى آخ…  ( 7 min )

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London’s Nova Twins took NPR’s Tiny Desk by storm, unleashing a face-melting fusion of distorted bass, hip-hop-infused beats and raspy vocals. Amy Love and Georgia South didn’t waste time easing in—“Cleopatra” kicks off the set with a bold middle finger to doubters, before “Monsters” sees them battling their inner demons live. Between sub-orbital pedalboard tweaks and a supernatural “Hummingbird” powered by a Harp Blaster mic, the duo proved they’re pedal nerds in the best way possible. They closed out with the heavy-hitting “Choose Your Fighter,” shattering any expectations of what a “nice, polite” performance should sound like. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Alpha 3 introduces the feature that defines Theater Alpha’s identity: the Rewind System. It’s not a panic button. It’s a resource. You get two shots per mission to take back the last 15 seconds and choose a different line. Use them well and you’ll create momentum. Waste them and you’ll feel the weight of every decision that follows. I tested slow‑motion early on. It worked, but it turned into a tax. If a game gives you a “think longer” button, you’re punished for not pressing it. It becomes mandatory. The Carrot not Stick design approach in Game Design Rewind flips that. You’re not avoiding mistakes—you’re learning from them. Try the flank. If it fails, roll it back and try a smarter angle. The story still includes the miss, and the adjustment is the point. It feels earned instead of autom…  ( 7 min )

Imagine you’re on a slow mobile network, scrolling through the news on your phone. The page loads instantly — text, images, layout all appear right away. Visually, it seems ready. You tap “Read more.” Nothing happens. A second tap. Still nothing. Then suddenly the page springs to life and behaves normally. What you just experienced is the hidden cost of hydration — the process modern frameworks use to “wake up” server-rendered HTML in the browser. It’s clever, it has served us well, but it’s far from lightweight. This article explores why hydration is computationally expensive and how partial hydration offers a more efficient path forward. Server-side rendering (SSR) allows users to see the interface immediately by delivering HTML first. However, HTML on its own is static — it cannot handl…  ( 9 min )

1️⃣ Reflection Loop Pattern - The Secret Behind Self-Improving AI 🧠 Concept It uses feedback from its own reflection before finalizing results, turning a “chatbot” into a self-critic — better logic, fewer errors. 🧩 Developer’s Analogy ⚙ How It Works 💼 Why It Matters Produces higher-quality, more consistent answers Reduces hallucinations and reasoning errors Enables autonomous improvement without retraining 💡 When: Code generation requiring security audits or compliance checks Content creation needing factual verification before publication Financial analysis where incorrect conclusions risk capital ⛔Limitations: Each reflection cycle increases token consumption and latency Without well-defined exit conditions, agents can loop unnecessarily Critique criteria must be specific and measurable; vague instructions like “check if this is good” produce inconsistent results 💡 Developer Template 💻 Example (Software Engineering) By adding a Reflection Loop, the AI no longer acts like a one-shot responder; it behaves like a self-reviewing thinker. Each loop helps the AI: Detect gaps in reasoning Spot inconsistencies Refine before finalizing This is how agentic systems evolve — gaining depth, reliability, and continuous improvement.  ( 7 min )

toString() Method It's a method you can use for numbers, booleans, arrays, and objects. const num = 10; console.log(num.toString()); // "10" const arr = [1, 2, 3]; console.log(arr.toString()); // "1,2,3" const person = { name: "John", age: 30, isStudent: true }; console.log(person.toString()); // "[object Object]" The Number() constructor is used to create a number object. The number object contains a few helpful properties and methods like the isNaN and the toFixed method. const myNum = new Number("34"); console.log(typeof myNum); // "object" In this example we pass in a string literal to the Number() constructor and the return type is of type object instead of a string. When the Number() constructor is called as a function without the new keyword, then the return value will…  ( 9 min )

How I reverse-engineered Wall Street quantitative research and what it taught me about production ML systems The Quant's Crystal Ball What if you could predict natural gas prices months in advance? What if you could build the same type of forecasting systems used by Wall Street energy traders? That's exactly what I did in a JPMorgan Chase quantitative research simulation, and I'm opening up the complete engine for everyone to see. This isn't just another ML tutorial this is a production-ready forecasting system that demonstrates how quantitative research meets MLOps in real-world financial applications. Energy companies and traders face a critical challenge: how to price long-term natural gas storage contracts when prices fluctuate daily. The solution requires: Accurate price …  ( 8 min )

By now, my Cloud Resume journey had already given me: ✅ A strong AWS foundation (Chunk 0) ✅ A static front-end (Chunk 1) ✅ A serverless API visitor counter (Chunk 2) ✅ Automated deployments + smoke testing (Chunk 3) But there was still one major gap: my infrastructure wasn’t yet described in code, and my software supply chain needed extra hardening. This chunk was all about professional-grade DevOps practices: Use Terraform to manage AWS resources as code. Secure the supply chain for my build + deployment pipeline. Document the system with architecture diagrams. Share the final product + GitHub repo for transparency. ClickOps (manually clicking through the AWS console) works when learning, but in production it’s a recipe for drift and risk. I converted every major AWS component into modula…  ( 9 min )

Everything Wrong With Sinners In 15 Minutes Or Less CinemaSins dives into what they hail as one of the year’s best genre flicks, playfully nitpicking every detail in under 15 minutes—because even masterpieces deserve a little roasting. Perfect for a Halloween watch, it’s equal parts love letter and cheeky critique. Along the way, they plug their website and YouTube offshoots (@TVSins, @commercialsins, @cinemasinspodcastnetwork), drop links to Discord, Reddit, Instagram, TikTok, and a fan poll, and invite you to support the team on Patreon. Plus, meet the writers behind the sins—Jeremy, Chris, Aaron, Jonathan, Deneé, Ian and Daniel—each with their own socials for your following pleasure. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

https://github.com/socaltiger/BatchSubmit.com A long-established software company has developed a suite of legacy professional applications in Fortran, COBOL, R, and Python. These tools, while powerful, were designed for programmers and not easily accessible to non-technical users. By adopting BatchSubmit, the company transformed its command-line programs into Web applications. This platform bridges complex backend code and end users, allowing anyone to run sophisticated computations simply by filling out a web form—without programmer assistance. The result is improved efficiency, reduced human error, and a modernized workflow.  ( 6 min )

4 ChatGPT Hacks That Halve Your Workload Tired of endless prompt tweaking? These four tricks—Prompt Reversal (reverse-engineer your best prompts), the 5-Minute Amplifier (turn one idea into multiple formats), the Red Team Technique (have AI critique its own work) and Blueprint Scaffolding (force it to outline its reasoning before writing)—give you rock-solid responses on the first try. Put them into action with real examples, and watch your AI workflow time drop by 50%. Works for any role or industry, no matter what you’re building. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Prologue: The Empty Canvas Imagine standing before a pristine canvas—your function signature. You're designing an API that must handle both presence and absence with grace. The parameters you receive might be fully formed objects, partially complete sketches, or complete voids. How do you define what happens when something isn't there? This is the story of two different kinds of nothingness: null and undefined. One is a deliberate statement of absence, the other is the absence of a statement. And in the world of default parameters, this distinction becomes art. Let me take you back to a time before ES6, when we painted our defaults by hand: function createUserProfile(config) { // The old ways - manual defaulting config = config || {}; const name = config.name || 'Anonymous'; …  ( 11 min )

Everything Wrong With Thunderbolts (The New Avengers) In 20 Minutes Or Less tears into every plot hole, continuity oopsie and cheeky moment in the latest Marvel caper—while still wondering if it might be kinda great after all. CinemaSins has all the juicy deets on their website, sinful poll and Patreon, plus links to follow their roasting adventures on YouTube, Twitter and beyond. Big shout-out to the sin team—Jeremy, Chris, Aaron, Jonathan, Deneé, Ian and Daniel—and don’t forget to join the fun on Discord, Reddit, Instagram and TikTok for behind-the-scenes banter and nonstop movie snarks. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Mr Sunday Movies dives into the 2010 sequel Predators, celebrating how it ditches the Alien vs. Predator detours to bring back a ragtag group of lunatics dropped into a deadly jungle for muddy, bone-crunching showdowns. He points out clever twists that elevate it above previous entries, but bemoans that this gritty reboot never got a proper follow-up, leaving fans hungry for more. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

It's been a while since I've done any programming in Java. My day job has been all Javascript, Python, and Go. I found myself with about an hour to kill and decided to dust off the ol' Java skills. Of course, as soon as I decided this, my brain stopped working and my mind went blank. Because I had limited time and really just wanted to get back into the Java syntax, I thought: "just create anything, no matter how simple." What's more simple than a calculator? Cool, don't have to think too much. Just have to get warmed up. After figuring out which JVM I had on my MacBook, I opened up IntelliJ (been a minute for that, too) and quickly produced exactly what you might expect. public class RegularCalculator { public RegularCalculator() { } public double add(double a, double b) { …  ( 8 min )

This is a submission for Frontend Challenge - Halloween Edition, Perfect Landing Nothing reminds me of Halloween more than watching Harry Potter movies. That inspired me to create my own HP-inspired world — a place where magic still exists and continues to evolve in the 21st century. The landing page represents one of many magic schools, that compete for students just like any other university. Are you convinced to join and master your Magic Spark? 🧙💫 Live Demo As mentioned in the project’s README, I usually focus on functional web design where form isn’t the main priority. This time, I wanted to build something completely from scratch — no frameworks — with full attention to detail. While coding, I learned a lot about CSS. I’ve always relied on Bootstrap and some basic styling when the framework couldn’t handle everything, but using vanilla CSS is a whole different experience. Time to keep learning!  ( 6 min )

As a best-selling author, I invite you to explore my books on Amazon. Don't forget to follow me on Medium and show your support. Thank you! Your support means the world! When I first started programming, errors felt like unexpected guests crashing a party. They'd show up unannounced and ruin everything. In many languages, errors are handled through exceptions that can pop up anywhere, making it hard to predict when things might go wrong. Rust changed my perspective entirely. Here, errors aren't surprises; they're just another kind of value that you plan for from the start. This approach makes software more reliable because the compiler helps you handle failures before the code even runs. Rust uses two main types to manage potential problems: Option and Result. Think of Option as a box tha…  ( 12 min )

Why even bother making a podcast app? yourcast! was born out of pure frustration. Like many people my age, my attention span has been whittled down to mere minutes, and my interests have been massively diversified: music production, AI technology, MMA, world news, startups, film & tv. I found myself flipping through 10-15 news sites and YouTube channels every day just to stay informed and keep up with the latest happenings. That wasn't the only issue. I wanted my news fix without being glued to my phone—at the gym, on the bus, lying in bed. A podcast seemed like the obvious solution—except every podcast I tried was either 2 hours of strangers debating stories I don't care about, generic news read by robots, or ragebait algorithms trying to keep me scrolling. I wanted something that felt …  ( 7 min )

From Zero to AI Agent: My 6-Month Journey with LLMs When I started building my first AI agent six months ago, I had no idea what I was getting into. I'd read articles about LangChain, watched tutorials on prompt engineering, and felt confident I could piece something together in a weekend. Reality hit me hard on day three when my "simple" chatbot crashed for the fifth time, and I had no idea why. Let's walk through this journey together—the mistakes I made, the tools that saved me, and what I wish someone had told me on day one. My first week was humbling. I thought building an AI agent meant writing a few prompts and calling it a day. Instead, I discovered that building effective AI agents involves managing inference latency, handling unpredictable outputs, and architecting systems that…  ( 10 min )

You're staring at a slow query. You know it needs optimization. But which approach? Add an index? Rewrite the logic? Use caching? Traditionally, you'd: Make a guess Test it (30 minutes to copy the database) Maybe it works, maybe it doesn't Repeat 5-10 times Hope you found the best solution Total time: 3-5 hours. Best outcome: uncertain. ParallelProof flips this on its head: What if 100 AI agents could test 100 different strategies at the exact same time, each with a full copy of your production database, and tell you which one wins—all in under 3 minutes? That's not science fiction. That's Tiger Data's Agentic Postgres + zero-copy forks + multi-agent orchestration. Traditional Approach: ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── Try Strategy 1 → Wait 30min → Test → Analyze …  ( 10 min )

ArtistAssistApp, also known as Artist Assist App, is a web app for artists to accurately mix any color from a photo, analyze tonal values, turn a photo into an outline, draw with the grid method, paint with a limited palette, simplify a photo, remove the background from an image, compare photos pairwise, and more. Hello, artists! I am pleased to announce the latest update to the ArtistAssistApp, released in November 2025. This time, there are some major new features in addition to the usual stability and performance improvements. Let's take a look at what's new since the last major update in August 2025! Adjusting White Balance Using the Percentile and Reference Methods We've improved how you adjust white balance in your photos! Two easy methods to choose from: Percentile (automatic): Gre…  ( 7 min )

Caching Strategy for restful API and website performance of any web page is a significant factor. It can affect the user’s experience and affect the business if not considered and optimized correctly. Research has shown that website load time and performance can heavily impact different factors such as SEO, engagement, and conversation rates. According to Amazon: “1 second of load lag time would cost Amazon $1.6 billion in sales per year”. Google also noted that “A lad time of 400ms results in a decrease of 0.44% traffic – In real terms this amounts to 440 million abandoned sessions/month and a massive loss in advertising revenue for Google.” Google said that “An extra 0.5 seconds in each search page generation would cause traffic to drop by 20%.” Now, that is massive: Walmart also admitte…  ( 15 min )

So like, imagine you just shipped a feature right? And everyone tells you to tweet about it but then you realize your last 5 tweets got zero engagement except for that one reply from your college roommate asking if youre okay because you tweeted at 3am again. And now youre spiraling about whether anyone actually cares about your side project or if youre just screaming into the void while pretending to build in public. Which is weird because building in public is supposed to help but it just makes you feel more isolated somehow? Anyway, where was I going with this? Oh right, automated social media updates from your GitHub commits. So basically, we all know GitHub is where the magic happens for devs, but then you need to turn those commits into engaging social content... which is like, super…  ( 7 min )

We’ve just created Embedl Hub, a developer platform where you can experiment with on-device AI and analyze how models perform on real hardware. It allows you to optimize, benchmark, and compare models by running them on devices hosted in the cloud, so you don’t need access to physical hardware yourself. You can test performance across phones, dev boards, and SoCs directly from your Python environment or terminal. Everything is free to use. Optimize and deploy your model on any edge device with the Embedl Hub Python library: Quantize your model for lower latency and memory usage. Compile your model for execution on CPU, GPU, NPU or other AI accelerators on your target devices. Benchmark your model's latency and memory usage on real edge devices in the cloud. Embedl Hub logs your metrics, pa…  ( 8 min )

In the rapidly evolving world of game development, staying ahead means understanding the latest updates and tools. As of 2025, Roblox continues to be an innovative platform, allowing creators to bring their ideas to life with Lua scripting. One essential component for efficient scripting in Roblox is the Lua module. But what exactly is a Lua module, and why is it crucial for developers on the platform? Let's delve into the world of Lua modules in Roblox and understand their significance in 2025. A Lua module in Roblox is a reusable piece of code created to perform specific tasks. These modules help developers organize their code, making it easier to manage and debug, especially as projects grow in complexity. Lua modules function similarly to functions but offer a more structured approach,…  ( 7 min )

AI That Reroutes Its Own Thoughts While Writing Ever wondered how a chatbot could get smarter while it’s answering you, without any extra data? Scientists have discovered a clever trick for a type of AI called a Mixture‑of‑Experts model. online adaptation happens in two short bursts: first while the AI is setting up its answer, and then at regular pauses during the conversation. What matters most is that this boost comes without any extra data or heavy computing—just a tiny, plug‑and‑play tweak. Read article comprehensive review in Paperium.net: Rewiring Experts on the Fly:Continuous Rerouting for Better Online Adaptation inMixture-of-Expert models 🤖 This analysis and review was primarily generated and structured by an AI . The content is provided for informational and quick-review purposes.  ( 23 min )

So i have been using Ghostty with Zellij on macOS for a while, as my favourite goto terminal and workspace. However, some things have been bothering me for a while that I couldn't sort out until now: The Option key on macOS wasn't being interpreted as Alt correctly in the terminal Jumping forward a word with Option+Right would trigger Zellij's floating pane toggle instead Reordering tabs with Alt+i and Alt+o did not work as expected This happens because macOS terminals convert Option+Right to Alt+f (for "forward word" navigation), which conflicts with Zellij's Alt+f floating pane keybinding. Set the macos-option-as-alt option in your Ghostty config e.g.: # Enable Option key as Alt for keybindings # Use 'left' so right Option key can still type special characters macos-option-as-alt = left This lets us use the left Option key as Alt for Zellij keybindings, while the right Option key can still type special characters (',~, |, etc.). Since Option+Right still is interpreted as Alt+f by the terminal, we need to change Zellij's floating pane keybinding. This can be changed in your Zellij config e.g.: bind "Alt Shift f" { ToggleFloatingPanes; } Hope this helps you out, if you have been struggling with the same issues like i did 👋  ( 6 min )

I’m Asad Hussain, currently doing my Bachelor of Computer Applications at IEM Kolkata. I’ve been into coding for a while now and honestly, it’s the only hobby that stuck 😭😭😭 Thanks for reading :)  ( 6 min )

O Büyülü Kelime “Uzmanlık” Bilişim sektörüne adım atan herkesin kariyerinin bir noktasında duyduğu o sihirli tavsiye: “Bir alanda uzmanlaşmalısın.” CV’nizde “Python Django Geliştiricisi”, “AWS Güvenlik Uzmanı” veya “React Native Mobil Geliştirici” gibi niş bir unvanın olması, size hem daha yüksek bir maaş hem de sektörde saygınlık vaat eder. Peki, bu madalyonun bir de öteki yüzü varsa? Tek bir teknolojiye veya alana adanmış bir kariyer, farkında olmadan bizi bir kariyer tuzağına doğru sürüklüyor olabilir mi? Bu yazıda, bilişim sektöründe uzmanlaşmanın parlak vaatlerini ve göz ardı edilen risklerini masaya yatıracağız. Uzmanlaşmanın Parıltılı Vaatleri: Neden Herkes Uzman Olmak İster? Uzmanlaşmanın neden bu kadar çekici olduğunu anlamak zor değil. Başlıca faydaları şunlardır: Derinlemesine B…  ( 8 min )

Most developers apply to hundreds of jobs… and still don’t land the right one. They scroll through LinkedIn, Indeed, or remote job boards, sending CVs everywhere — hoping something sticks. But if you ask them where they applied last week, what roles they’re targeting, or how many they plan to apply for next week — they have no idea. They’re playing the random application lottery. And honestly? That rarely works. I’ve been there too — spending weeks applying aimlessly, wondering why I wasn’t getting callbacks. Until I built a system. A simple, step-by-step job search framework that finally made the process structured, trackable, and less stressful. Today, I’ll share that exact system with you — the same one I personally use to track opportunities, stay consistent, and apply smarter, not har…  ( 9 min )

This tutorial was written by Luce Carter With the release of MongoDB 7.0 in August 2023, MongoDB introduced a new feature called Queryable Encryption (QE), the first of its kind. With Queryable Encryption, your data is encrypted, even at rest, with the database server unable to read it either but still able to execute queries against it. You can configure what fields to encrypt so you can decide to encrypt as much or as little of your document’s fields as you need. The great news is, not only is this available for all paid tiers and in our C# driver, but it’s now also available in the MongoDB Entity Framework Core (EF) provider. In this tutorial, we are going to take an existing Blazor application that uses EF and the EF Core Provider, and configure it to use QE to securely encrypt certai…  ( 12 min )

Comparación de Características Característica Scanner BufferedReader Facilidad de uso Más simple y directo para leer distintos tipos de datos (nextInt(), nextLine(), etc.) Solo lee texto como String, se necesita Integer.parseInt() para números. Velocidad Más lento Más rápido, especialmente con muchos datos. Parsers incluidos Sí, métodos como nextInt(), nextDouble(), etc. No, debes convertir manualmente (Integer.parseInt()). Lectura de líneas Con nextLine() Con readLine() Uso con consola Ideal para programas interactivos Menos cómodo, requiere más código. Sincronización No sincronizado Sincronizado (thread-safe). Scanner import java.util.Scanner; public class ScannerExample { public static void main(String[] args) { Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in); System.out.print("Enter your name: "); String name = sc.nextLine(); System.out.print("Enter your age: "); int age = sc.nextInt(); System.out.println("Hello " + name + ", age " + age); } } BufferedReader import java.io.BufferedReader; import java.io.InputStreamReader; import java.io.IOException; public class BufferedReaderExample { public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException { BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in)); System.out.print("Enter your name: "); String name = br.readLine(); System.out.print("Enter your age: "); int age = Integer.parseInt(br.readLine()); System.out.println("Hello " + name + ", age " + age); } } Usa Scanner si: Estás haciendo prácticas de algoritmos en consola. En programas donde la facilidad de lectura es más importante que la velocidad. Usa BufferedReader si: Necesitas máximo rendimiento (por ejemplo, al leer grandes cantidades de datos). Estás haciendo parsing de archivos grandes o input de alta velocidad en línea.  ( 6 min )

Everything Wrong With Sinners In 15 Minutes Or Less CinemaSins takes a playful, Halloween-flavored jab at Sinners, one of the year’s best genre movies, in a rapid-fire “sins” breakdown. Along the way they plug their main site, YouTube channels (@TVSins, @CommercialSins, @CinemaSinsPodcastNetwork), a fan poll, and Patreon for extra support. Stick around for writer shout-outs (Jeremy, Chris, Aaron, Jonathan, Deneé, Ian, Daniel) and join the community on Discord, Reddit, Instagram, TikTok—or even grab Jeremy’s book. Happy sinning! Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Large Language Models (LLMs) form the foundation of today’s AI. At their core, an LLM like GPT-4 processes tokens (sub-word text units) through a deep neural network. Each token is converted into a high-dimensional embedding (a numeric vector capturing semantic meaning). For example, the sentence “Hello world” might be broken into tokens like "Hello", "Ġworld" and each token is mapped to a vector of hundreds or thousands of dimensions. These embeddings allow the model to understand relationships between words. GPT-4 also has a large context window (e.g. up to 8K or even 32K tokens in extended versions), meaning it can “remember” and attend to that many tokens in a single conversation. In practice, you might use GPT-4 in code like this: from openai import OpenAI client = OpenAI(api_key="YO…  ( 12 min )

Welcome to this week's Symfony Station communiqué. It's your review of the essential news in the Symfony and PHP development communities focusing on protecting democracy. There's good content in all of our categories, so please take your time and enjoy the items most relevant and valuable to you. We publish on Fridays. So you can savor it over your weekend. Or jump straight to your favorite section. Symfony Universe PHP More Programming Defending Democracy Cybersecurity Fediverse My opinions will be in bold. And will often involve cursing. Because humans. Especially tech bros. Fuck 'em! We're back from France scouting locations for The Fulcrum's worldwide HQ. ;) Occitanie won out for the region (department). We’re still working on the town. Nimes, Montpellier, and Toulouse are in the fina…  ( 10 min )

Designing All-Device Compatible Tableau Dashboards: A Complete Guide Dipti M ・ Nov 9 #webdev #programming #beginners #tutorial  ( 6 min )

Welcome to this week's Symfony Station communiqué. It's your review of the essential news in the Symfony and PHP development communities focusing on protecting democracy. There's good content in all of our categories, so please take your time and enjoy the items most relevant and valuable to you. We publish on Fridays. So you can savor it over your weekend. Or jump straight to your favorite section. Symfony Universe PHP More Programming Defending Democracy Cybersecurity Fediverse Once again, thanks go out to Javier Eguiluz and the team at Symfony for sharing our communiqué in their Week of Symfony My opinions will be in bold. And will often involve cursing. Because humans. Especially tech bros. Fuck 'em! We're off to France to scout locations for The Fulcrum's worldwide HQ. ;) So, there w…  ( 10 min )

CinemaSins just unleashed their “Everything Wrong With Thunderbolts (The New Avengers) In 20 Minutes Or Less” romp, gleefully counting every on-screen hiccup—even while admitting they might secretly dig the flick. Expect the usual dose of playful nitpicking, pop-culture references, and tongue-in-cheek commentary. For more sin-filled fun, dive into Cinemasins’ site and YouTube channels, cast your vote in their poll, or support the crew on Patreon. Don’t miss the behind-the-scenes banter from writers Jeremy, Chris, Aaron, Jonathan, Deneé, Ian, and Daniel, and join the conversation on Discord, Reddit, Instagram, and TikTok. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Predators – Caravan of Garbage Review Mr Sunday Movies dives into 2010’s Predators, applauding its return to the franchise’s roots with a rag-tag squad, a muddy jungle battleground and fresh twists that finally elevate it above past sequels—then laments that we never got a proper follow-up to this fan-favorite. Alongside the review, the video plugs the Caravan of Garbage series and points you to bonus podcasts, extended audio cuts, merch, Patreon perks and socials (big Sandwich, Twitter, YouTube) for all things Mr Sunday Movies. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

I didn’t plan to spend my weekend herding two middle schoolers through a game jam, but fate had other ideas. “Just mentor them a bit,” they said. “It’ll be fun!” they said. I’d been asked, last-minute, to mentor two middle schoolers eighth and ninth graders during a weekend “Build-a-thon.” I’m a senior Android engineer and occasional game development mentor, so I expected to spend 48 caffeine-fueled hours teaching arrays, tilesets, and maybe some basic game logic. Instead, I found myself mediating creative explosions, emotional whiplash, and a tug-of-war between two brilliant but combustible imaginations. Their project, which they proudly titled Eco-nomy, was a digital board game about saving or exploiting the planet. One team played as Forest, planting trees and cleaning pollution. The ot…  ( 11 min )

New Trick Lets AI Models Grow Without Extra Tuning Ever wondered why building a bigger AI model feels like starting from scratch each time? Researchers have uncovered a simple rule that keeps the “learning speed” and “regularization” steady, no matter how wide the model gets. weight decay in the popular AdamW optimizer, the team found that the adjustment follows a predictable square‑root pattern as the model widens. This breakthrough removes a major bottleneck, letting AI researchers focus on ideas rather than endless trial‑and‑error. Imagine a world where every new AI breakthrough can be built on the last, with just a tiny tweak. Read article comprehensive review in Paperium.net: Robust Layerwise Scaling Rules by Proper Weight Decay Tuning 🤖 This analysis and review was primarily generated and structured by an AI . The content is provided for informational and quick-review purposes.  ( 22 min )

Anthropic’s Claude consistently outshines OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini for coding work thanks to its stronger context management, holistic understanding of codebases, and more natural collaborative style. Modern devs and AI power users gravitate toward Claude when tackling bigger projects, challenging bug fixes, or anything demanding clear, consistent logic and minimal hand-holding. Claude’s standout strength is code comprehension at scale. Unlike ChatGPT or Gemini—both of which excel at novel code snippets, quick builds, or narrow tasks—Claude reliably digests sprawling, multi-file projects, supporting actual engineering workflows. Claude keeps larger context windows straight so it tracks variables, intent, and requirements across sessions, which means less repetition and clarific…  ( 7 min )

In the world of DevOps, speed and efficiency are paramount. Yet, many teams are still bogged down by fragmented toolchains, manual processes, and the constant context-switching between IDEs, terminals, browsers, and project management tools. While automation is the goal, setting up complex CI/CD pipelines and maintaining brittle test scripts can sometimes feel like more work than the manual tasks they replace. What if you could command your entire workflow—from browser testing and performance analysis to creating documented GitHub issues—using natural language, directly from your terminal? This isn't a far-off fantasy. By combining the conversational power of Google's Gemini CLI with the containerized power of the Docker MCP Toolkit, you can create a seamless, intelligent automation engine…  ( 11 min )

TL;DR: connect Cohere to .NET in 10 minutes. I’ll show two approaches: direct call to the Chat API V1/V2 using the unified Microsoft.Extensions.AI interface (IChatClient) - provider-agnostic code. I’m experimenting with Microsoft.Extensions.AI and want to share the results: I wrote a small Cohere adapter and published it to NuGet. Maybe someone will find it useful, and I’d love to get feedback. With Microsoft.Extensions.AI it became easier to plug LLMs into .NET projects: we now have unified abstractions (IChatClient), DI and minimal vendor lock-in. Cohere is not supported out of the box, so I made a lightweight adapter and published it to NuGet. This article shows how to run a Cohere chat in .NET in ten minutes. Cohere is an LLM provider focused on enterprise needs: data privacy, turnkey …  ( 7 min )

Monads... So this time, I wanted to fix that. In this video and article, I’ll walk you through what Monads actually are — but not by dropping the term on you out of nowhere. We’ll start from the ground up: Functors, then Applicatives, and only then arrive at Monads. Step 1 — Functors: applying a function inside something A Functor is any type that can be “mapped over.” You already know this idea from other languages: The wrapper (Maybe) stays the same — you just apply a function inside it. Step 2 — Applicatives: applying a wrapped function to a wrapped value Applicatives go one step further. 2) Just 10 → gives Just 20. It’s basically saying: “I’ve got a boxed function and a boxed value. Apply one to the other.” And when something’s missing (Nothing), the whole thing fails gracefully. Step 3 — Monads: chaining things that return wrapped results Now comes the big one — Monads. For example: safeDivide :: Float -> Float -> Maybe Float Using the “bind” operator (>>=), we can write: Just 100 >>= (\x -> safeDivide x 2) >>= (\y -> safeDivide y 5) If any step returns Nothing, the whole chain stops. And if you prefer cleaner syntax, do notation does the same thing with less noise. Wrapping up Functor → apply a function inside a context Applicative → apply a wrapped function to a wrapped value Monad → chain functions that return wrapped values That’s it — the scary word hides a very simple pattern. You’ll see it everywhere in Haskell: Maybe, IO, Either, List — all of them are Monads. Once you understand one, you’ve got them all. If you want to see this concept click into place, check out the full video — I walk through everything live in GHCi with examples and visuals.  ( 7 min )

Perfect Landing Page: Halloween Night 🎃 What I Built -Dark mode design to capture the Halloween mood. The goal was to make the landing page both visually appealing and interactive, giving users a magical Halloween experience. Demo https://codepen.io/Minal-Prasad/pen/emJqKWX Journey Using Three.js to create interactive 3D elements directly in the browser. I’m particularly proud of how the 3D pumpkin scene integrates seamlessly with the content and navigation, making the landing page immersive without overwhelming the user. Next, I hope to enhance it further with: Glowing pumpkin eyes that flicker dynamically. Team: Solo project by Minal Prasad  ( 6 min )

Introduction When building decentralized applications that interact with smart contracts, one of the most critical aspects is proper error handling. In Equillar, we've implemented an error handling strategy that bridges the gap between our Rust smart contracts and the PHP backend application. In this article, I'll explain how we manage contract errors end-to-end, from definition in Rust to user-friendly messages in our PHP application. Soroban smart contracts, written in Rust, need to communicate errors back to the calling application. These errors must be: Well-defined and predictable Easy to handle in the backend Translatable to user-friendly messages Let's analyze how we achieve this in Equillar. First, we define all possible errors in our Rust smart contract using an enum with the #[…  ( 9 min )

Introduction This article started from a conversation in our V-Mobile office. We were discussing cases where new company logos suspiciously resembled famous brands. In many instances, these similarities seemed intentional—designed to confuse customers and boost sales, especially in smaller markets. As AI enthusiasts, we naturally started with popular AI models. DINO is excellent for image similarity detection. However, it can be easily confused by background changes or gradient fills. 0.56 between their embeddings.(Note: Throughout this article, "distance" means cosine distance unless specified otherwise.) This high distance means DINO thinks they're quite different, even though they're clearly similar to human eyes. This creates false negatives—we might miss real similarities. CLIP is…  ( 10 min )

Understanding how HTTP requests map to TCP connections gives backend engineers the ability to build efficient, responsive systems. In Node.js, the req.socket property exposes the underlying TCP socket for each request, allowing servers to detect disconnects, cancel work, and free up resources when clients abort requests. This article explores how req.socket works, how to use it to implement cancellation logic, and how to propagate abort signals through your application layers. req.socket Actually Is Every Express request object (req) is an instance of Node.js’s IncomingMessage, which represents the HTTP request stream. IncomingMessage holds a socket property that refers to the underlying net.Socket — the raw TCP connection between the client and the server. // Example: inspecting a requ…  ( 8 min )

Laravel Boost is an MCP server equipped with over 15 tools to help your AI assistant generate high-quality Laravel code. By default, your installation doesn’t include an option to run with Gemini CLI, — but there’s an easy way to set it up. If you haven’t installed it yet, run this command to install Gemini CLI globally: npm install -g @google/gemini-cli Navigate to your Laravel project and install the package: composer require laravel/boost --dev Then install the MCP server and the coding guidelines: php artisan boost:install Once installation is complete, create a JSON file for your Gemini CLI settings at: .gemini/settings.json Paste the following content inside: { "mcpServers": { "laravel-boost": { "command": "php", "args": ["artisan", "boost:mcp"] } } } That’s it! To confirm that the MCP servers and tools are properly integrated, start the Gemini CLI and run: /mcp list You should see a list of all available tools. Laravel Boost also includes some tools for Herd. { "mcpServers": { "laravel-boost": { "command": "php", "args": ["artisan", "boost:mcp"] }, "herd": { "command": "php", "args": ["C:/Users/user/.config/herd/bin/herd-mcp.phar"], "env": { "SITE_PATH": "C:\\OurPath\\project-name" } } } } That’s it! 🎉 I hope this helps you get Laravel Boost running smoothly with Gemini CLI.  ( 6 min )

If you’ve ever exported data from an app or database, you know the drill. And before you know it, you’re bouncing between Excel, VS Code, and a folder full of “final_v3_cleaned.csv” files. I built Gridscript.io to stop that cycle — and give developers and analysts one place to transform data instantly, using JavaScript or Python, right in the browser. Excel is amazing for quick inspection, filtering, and small edits. You end up writing scripts like this: import pandas as pd df = pd.read_csv("data.csv") df["price"] = df["price"].astype(float) df.to_csv("data_cleaned.csv") All of that just to import the data and this doesn't take into account the time spent to setup the project and install dependencies. GridScript eliminates the need for setups, dependencies, or switching tools. Here’s the …  ( 7 min )

I wasn't looking for a game idea when I picked up Mazes for Programmers by Jamis Buck. I was just curious about algorithms and looking for something different from the usual data structures textbooks. And the book gave me that - it was incredibly well-written. I couldn't stop reading. But there was one problem: all the code examples were in Ruby. Ruby is not exactly my cup of tea. As an iOS developer, I am familiar with it, but I never got fluent. But I was itching for a new project, and I wanted to truly understand these algorithms, not just copy code in a language I didn't know. So I embraced the challenge and started converting the code to Swift. What began as a simple translation exercise eventually evolved into a full Swift framework, then a demo app, and ultimately became an iOS game…  ( 11 min )

Crypto swings 10% a day. A stablecoin is a digital token pegged 1:1 to a stable asset (USD, EUR, GBP). ✅ Fiat-backed (USDC, USDT, PYUSD) → backed by cash/T-bills in a bank. For banks, EMIs & PSPs, only fiat-backed matters: regulated, redeemable, and bank-collateralized. ⸻ Where they’re used today 💸 Payments & settlement — faster cross-border flows Visa already settles some payments in USDC. PayPal issues PYUSD via Paxos. ⸻ Regulation catches up (2024–2025): 🇪🇺 MiCA → EUR stablecoins: 1:1 reserves, redemption rights 👉 If it acts like money → regulate it like like money. ⸻ Opportunities for EMIs & banks ⸻ Why it matters now Stablecoins aren’t “future crypto hype.” They’re today’s upgrade to global money movement. 💬 Stablecoins #Fintech #Payments #Blockchain #Crypto #DigitalFinance #Innovation #EMI #BankingTransformation  ( 6 min )

FinTrust: Testing AI Trustworthiness in Everyday Money Matters Ever wondered if a robot could safely handle your bank account? FinTrust is a new test that puts AI models through real‑world finance scenarios to see how trustworthy they really are. all the AIs stumbled, revealing a big gap that needs fixing. FinTrust shines a light on where we stand and pushes developers to build smarter, safer financial assistants. Read article comprehensive review in Paperium.net: FinTrust: A Comprehensive Benchmark of Trustworthiness Evaluation in FinanceDomain 🤖 This analysis and review was primarily generated and structured by an AI . The content is provided for informational and quick-review purposes.  ( 22 min )

This is a submission for Frontend Challenge - Halloween Edition, CSS Art. Hey everyone, and Happy Halloween! For this CSS art challenge, I didn't want to just make a static image. I wanted to build a living 'diorama' a small, spooky scene you could actually play with. As the title suggests, there are both "Tricks" and "Treats" hidden inside. This isn't just for looking it's for interacting. The scene is packed with... surprises. See if you can find them all: Try double-clicking the 'Trick or Treat' neon sign... if you dare. Click on the ghosts to see a special apparition. Make the Jack-o'-lantern glow! Click it as many times as you can and watch it. This is my "treat" (the technical details) behind the "tricks" (the interactive scares). This is a CSS Art challenge, so the entire visual sce…  ( 7 min )

Build a Highly Available Pi-hole Cluster with Ansible (VRRP) Danylo Mikula ・ Nov 7 #pihole #raspberrypi #ansible #tutorial  ( 5 min )

Introducing Beitha: The first AI browser automation extension Anwar Laksir ・ Nov 9  ( 5 min )

If you’ve worked with Java ☕️ long enough, you probably remember when thread management felt less like coding and more like careful resource budgeting. We had to size our thread pools just "right", because Too small -> and requests would just pile up, and waiting forever. Too large -> and memory vanished quickly. as each thread reserved a big chunk for itself. Even worse, your CPU would spend all its time just switching between threads instead of doing actually work. And when I/O came into play — like, blocking on a database call or waiting for a network response — we either had to accept wasted threads or jump into async APIs, callbacks, and CompletableFuture chains. We all made it work, of course. But it was a constant headache. We spent more time fighting with the concurrency model than…  ( 9 min )

🧭 Securing Outbound Traffic at the DNS Layer with AWS Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall When you think of network security in AWS, you probably picture Security Groups, NACLs, or AWS Network Firewall. But what if you could stop malicious traffic before it even knows where to go — before an IP address is ever resolved? That’s the power of AWS Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall. Every outbound connection starts with a DNS query. Whether your EC2 instance is reaching an API, a SaaS endpoint, or — in a worst-case scenario — a command-and-control (C2) domain — the first step is always: “What’s the IP of this domain?” Attackers exploit this by using DNS for malware callbacks and data exfiltration. Traditional firewalls inspect packets after DNS resolution. DNS Firewall stops threats before they e…  ( 9 min )

Addressing traceability in language models within practical limits We’re doing alchemy with billion-dollar budgets. There is a clear issue in AI that is becoming commonly understood: it is now one of the biggest single chunks of the U.S. economy, but is built on a technology with myriad key aspects that the industry can’t explain. Commercial AI development invests billions in RLHF, constitutional frameworks, and specialized training runs. These produce measurable benchmark improvements while the industry remains unable to explain why they work, why they fail under pressure, or how to predict what outcomes will emerge before implementation. This isn’t a failing paradigm seeking replacement. It’s the absence of paradigm entirely. Thomas Kuhn identified pre-paradigmatic science as competing t…  ( 12 min )

🎃 Inspiration Halloween’s eerie and magical vibe inspired this project — glowing jack-o’-lanterns, haunted houses, flying bats, and a luminous moon. My goal was to create an interactive 3D Halloween scene using only CSS, where users feel like they’ve stepped into a spooky, haunted pumpkin realm. 💻 Demo 3D Haunted Pumpkin Realm https://codepen.io/Minal-Prasad/pen/MYKNGLG https://github.com/minalprasad08/halloween-css-art-3d 🛠 Journey I’m particularly proud of how CSS alone creates a glowing, immersive Halloween atmosphere. Team: Solo project by Minal Prasad  ( 6 min )

RDBMS systems commonly try to improve query performance by caching a statement's execution context and re-executing it with different parameter values. This approach avoids the overhead of parsing, rewriting, and planning on each execution. PostgreSQL implements this through Prepared Statements. Disclaimer: This article is written for the purpose of understanding how Prepared Statements work in Java and its official PostgreSQL JDBC driver (PgJDBC). It might not be a comprehensive guide to Prepared Statements and is not intended to be a substitute for reading the official documentation. PostgreSQL executes SQL commands through one of two protocols: The Simple Query protocol: The client sends a textual query string, which is parsed and immediately executed by the server. The Extended Query p…  ( 10 min )

4 ChatGPT Hacks that Cut Your Workload in Half Jeff Su breaks down four easy yet powerful techniques—Prompt Reversal, the 5-Minute Amplifier, the Red Team self-critique, and Blueprint Scaffolding—that help you craft better AI prompts, repurpose one idea into multiple formats, force ChatGPT to outline its reasoning, and even get it to proof its own output. Each hack comes with real examples you can start using today to cut your AI workflow time in half, no matter your role or industry. On top of that, Jeff’s got a free HubSpot ebook, a detailed blog post, and links to his AI course waitlist, Workspace Academy, and Notion Command Center so you can level up your entire productivity stack. Feel free to dive in, grab the resources, and start hacking your way to smarter, faster results! Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

zer0DAYSlater is a modular, offline-capable red-team research framework built to simulate advanced adversarial behavior, analyze persistence models, and test multilayer exfiltration and evasion techniques in isolated lab networks. It combines a command-and-control mesh, multi-protocol exfiltration modules, agent lifecycle management, and process-level concealment mechanisms into a unified experimental platform for understanding the operational lifecycle of modern intrusion tooling. The framework is built purely for authorized security research, red-team development, and training within controlled environments. 🔗 GitHub Repository: https://github.com/GnomeMan4201/zer0DAYSlater agent/) Implements autonomous node behavior. Each agent instance acts as an independent research implant capable…  ( 9 min )

Everything Wrong With Sinners In 15 Minutes Or Less CinemaSins is celebrating Halloween by “sinning” what they call one of the greatest genre movies of the year in just 15 minutes, complete with their signature quips and snarky commentary. They also invite you to dive deeper—visit their website and Linktree for more channels (TV Sins, Commercial Sins, the Podcast Network), fill out a “sinful” poll, support the small team on Patreon, and connect on Discord, Reddit, Instagram, TikTok, and more. Writers featured include Jeremy, Chris, Aaron, Jonathan, Deneé, Ian, and Daniel. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Everything Wrong With Thunderbolts* is Cinemasins’ rapid-fire roast of the new Avengers sequel, packing every nitpick and plot hole into a sub-20-minute video—yet they cheekily admit the movie might actually be pretty fun. Of course, they’re also milking their empire: hit up their website and linktree for all the channels (TVSins, Commercial Sins, Cinemasins Podcast), join the Discord/Reddit, fill out their sinful poll, and consider supporting the team on Patreon. Writers’ social links are sprinkled throughout, too. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Predators – Caravan of Garbage dives into how the 2010 film finally shook off the clunkiness of earlier sequels by dropping a motley crew of warriors into a muddy jungle gauntlet. It brings back that gritty, survival-of-the-fittest vibe we love, plus a few fresh twists that give it more bite than its Alien vs. Predator predecessors. Despite its cult appeal and a fanbase clamoring for more, “Predators” never got an official follow-up—leaving us wishing this brutal reboot had spawned a proper sequel. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Unlocking PIM Potential: A Software-First Approach to Power Integrity Tired of performance bottlenecks holding back your cutting-edge applications? Processing-in-Memory (PIM) offers a tantalizing solution – compute directly within the memory chip itself. But there's a catch: increased operating frequencies and complex designs often lead to significant voltage droop, crippling performance and threatening chip reliability. To overcome this hurdle, imagine a system where software intelligently collaborates with the hardware to anticipate and mitigate these voltage fluctuations. The core idea is to dynamically adjust the chip's operating parameters, trading off performance for stability in critical areas, all driven by insights gleaned from the software workload. Think of it as a smart therm…  ( 7 min )

AI Trading Bots See Surge, But Experts Warn: Not a \"Set It and Forget It\" Solution\n\nThe world of cryptocurrency and traditional finance is buzzing with the increased adoption of AI trading bots. These sophisticated algorithms are designed to analyze market data, identify trends, and execute trades automatically, often at speeds and efficiencies impossible for human traders. Cointelegraph recently highlighted a significant rise in their usage, attracting both seasoned investors and newcomers eager to capitalize on market volatility without constant manual oversight. The appeal is clear: potential for optimized returns, reduced emotional trading, and round-the-clock market participation, making them seem like the ultimate tool for modern investing.\n\nHowever, this rising trend comes wit…  ( 16 min )

Week 3: From 0 to 30 Developers (Building in Public) Liquidcode ・ Nov 8 #webdev #programming #startup #buildinpublic  ( 5 min )

In this article, we’ll explore the Circuit Breaker pattern — a crucial design pattern for building resilient microservices in Go. When designing distributed systems, it’s not a question of if something will fail — it’s when. In production systems, retries and backoff strategies help, but sometimes they’re not enough. Circuit Breaker patterns come in — providing a way to gracefully degrade your system instead of letting failures cascade. A Circuit Breaker acts like an electrical switch. It prevents resource exhaustion, retry storms, and latency chain reactions across your microservices. Closed → Everything works fine. Requests flow normally. Open → Too many failures occurred. Stop requests immediately. Half-Open → Test a few requests to check if recovery happened. Let’s simulate a productio…  ( 8 min )

코딩테스트를 javascript로 그동안 준비했었는데 결국에는 python으로 갈아탔습니다. 평소에도 코드를 javascript로 작성하기에 문법에 익숙해서 구현하기가 편한데, 다른 언어들은 꾸준히 사용하지 않다보니 문법을 자주 잊어버리게 돼요. 코딩테스트 언어로 javascript를 선택하여 언어 문법 자체도 잘 알게 되고 익숙한 언어로 코딩테스트도 수월하게 볼 수 있으니까 일석이조 아닐까요? 이 이론은 여러번의 실험 끝에 저를 배신했습니다. 라이브러리 없는 javascript의 실용성이 너무나도 떨어지기 때문이에요. 어떤 부분이 javascript를 비생산적으로 만들고 코딩테스트에서 여러분을 불리하게 만들 수 있는지 소개합니다. 프로그래머스 환경에서 코딩테스트를 지원하는 기업이 아닌 경우 높은 확률로 javascript를 지원하지 않습니다. 반면 C++, Java, Python의 경우에는 대기업부터 스타트업까지 전부 다 지원하게 됩니다. 서비스 기업의 채용 프로세스를 쉽게 통과할 수 있는 분들의 경우에는 좋아하는 언어로 코딩테스트를 보셔도 되지만 채용 상황이 좋지 않아서 어떤 기업이든 일단 취업을 하시길 희망시는 분들의 경우에는 저 세가지 언어 중에서 고르시는 것이 좋지 않을까 싶네요. queue를 어떻게 구현하려고 하셨나요? 대부분 아래의 아이디어를 떠올리셨을 겁니다. array.push()와 array.shift()를 사용해서 구현해야지. 하지만 이 구현 방식으로는 높은 확률로 시간복잡도 제한에 걸려서 문제의 시간 제한을 통과하지 못할 겁니다. 따라서 stack 두개를 활용하여 직접 queue를 구현해…  ( 8 min )

"You can't improve what you can't measure." - Peter Drucker Last year, our production Camunda clusters started showing strange behavior. Process instances were stuck. Job executors were falling behind. Incidents were piling up. But our monitoring dashboards? They showed everything was "green." 🟢 or just "no data to show" I've been working with Camunda 7 for years, and monitoring has always been the painful part. Not because monitoring tools don't exist - quite the opposite. I've tried them all: Datadog - Great for infrastructure, expensive, doesn't understand workflow engines Grafana + Prometheus - Powerful but requires extensive configuration for Camunda-specific metrics Promtail + Loki - Built custom log parsing pipelines, spent more time maintaining them than using them ELK Stack - Ove…  ( 12 min )

User Scanner Repo: https://github.com/kaifcodec/user-scanner Scan a username across multiple social, developer, and creator platforms to see if it’s available. Perfect for finding a unique username across GitHub, Twitter, Reddit, Instagram, and more, all in one command. ✅ Check usernames across social networks, developer platforms, and creator communities. ✅ Clear Available / Taken / Error output for each platform. ✅ Fully modular: add new platform modules easily. ✅ Command-line interface ready: works directly after pip install. pip install user-scanner Scan a username across all platforms: user-scanner -u Optionally, scan a specific category or single module: user-scanner -u -c dev user-scanner -l # Lists all available modules user-scanner -u -m gith…  ( 9 min )

“The dragon’s eyes gleam red in the darkness. Roll for initiative.” You wait. The AI Dungeon Master pauses... then declares you rolled a 47. On a twenty-sided die. Something’s not right here. Welcome to the chaotic crossroads of artificial intelligence and tabletop imagination — where LLMs try to become Dungeon Masters, and reality checks in with a +5 modifier. Anyone who’s played Dungeons & Dragons knows the bottleneck: finding a good Dungeon Master is harder than finding a +3 sword in a kobold’s lair. Never cancels sessions. Doesn’t need prep time. Remembers (sort of) every NPC voice. Can spin infinite side quests on demand. 🧩 AI Dungeon (Latitude.io): The OG of AI storytelling. 100K+ players exploring endless worlds. 🏰 Friends & Fables: Multiplayer AI DM “Franz” handles …  ( 9 min )

When developing solutions, it’s easy to get distracted by shiny new tools. A sleek interface, a trending platform, a feature-rich dashboard, all tempting shortcuts to progress. But here’s the truth: tools are irrelevant without purpose, process, and people. Choosing software is not a strategy. It’s a tactic, one that only works if it’s embedded in a well-defined process. Whether you’re hiring, building workflows, or designing systems, the real question isn’t “What tool should we use?” but “What problem are we solving, and how will we sustain the solution?” A poorly defined process will fail in any tool. A well-defined process will succeed in almost any. That same process can also adapt and scale. The most successful systems aren’t built around tools. The requirements gathering phase, where…  ( 7 min )

This debugging story is from the do-not-stop project - a full-stack Web3 app with React frontend, React Native mobile frontend, Node.js backend, and multi-blockchain smart contracts. It all started with a crash in @reown/appkit-react-native. While debugging that crash, I noticed something weird happening with valtio. The subscribe() function seemed to work fine, but proxy() wasn't behaving as expected. I decided to dig into the library code itself and added some debugging directly in node_modules/valtio/vanilla.js. I printed proxyStateMap.get(proxyObject) in both functions, and that's when things got interesting: In proxy(): Got the correct value ✓ In subscribe(): Got undefined ✗ Wait, what? They were completely different WeakMap instances from different valtio module instances! The proxy …  ( 8 min )

🎵 Project Showcase: Spotify-Live-Banner Tired of static stats on your GitHub profile? I recently launched Spotify-Live-Banner, a small, open-source web service that fetches your currently playing Spotify track and renders it as a clean, real-time, animated SVG image banner. It's a fun way to bring life to your profile, and I wanted to share the process of building it with Python and Flask. The project serves a single purpose: to provide a highly customized image URL that displays your live music activity. Data Source: Fetches the user's currently playing track from the Spotify API. Rendering: Uses Flask to serve a route that dynamically generates an SVG image based on the song data and user-defined themes (colors, animations, layout). Target Audience: Developers looking for a dynamic p…  ( 7 min )

Express.js gives you freedom. It doesn’t force strict rules on where files should go or how your app should be organized. That flexibility is useful when experimenting, but as soon as your application grows beyond a few routes, a messy structure begins to slow you down. A good project structure turns your Express application into a well-arranged workspace where logic is easy to find, features are modular, and growth feels natural. This article explores how to design an Express project structure that is clean, scalable, and maintainable. A well-organized Express project helps you: As features grow, you add new files without breaking the old ones. Other developers can quickly understand and navigate the project. Routing, controllers, business logic, and database layers remain independent. Cl…  ( 8 min )

4 ChatGPT hacks slash your workload in half! Instead of endless back-and-forth tinkering, the Prompt Reversal Technique has you analyze strong ChatGPT outputs and flip them into perfect prompts. With the 5-Minute Amplifier, you can instantly repurpose a single idea into blog posts, social media threads, email drafts and more—no extra sweat. For quality control, the Red Team Technique asks ChatGPT to poke holes in its own work, ensuring you catch flaws early. And with Blueprint Scaffolding, you force the model to map out its reasoning step-by-step before diving in, so you always know exactly how it arrived at an answer. Try these tricks and watch your AI workflow speed up across any role or industry. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

CinemaSins takes on “Sinners” in a punchy 15-minute roast session—calling out every nitpick, plot hiccup, and character quirk in a movie they secretly adore. It’s a Halloween-themed roast where the snark is real but so is the love for one of the year’s best genre flicks. For more sinful fun, swing by cinemasins.com or their Linktree for all the latest videos, join the Discord and Reddit communities, fill out their cheeky poll, and consider supporting the crew on Patreon. You can also catch the writers’ snarky takes on Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok! Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Everything Wrong With Thunderbolts* (The New Avengers) in 20 Minutes Or Less takes the usual CinemaSins approach—racking up all the “sins” in Marvel’s latest team-up flick while still admitting it’s pretty fun. Along the way they plug their website, YouTube channels, social feeds, a quick poll, Patreon support, and give shout-outs to the writers plus community hangouts on Discord, Reddit, TikTok and beyond. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Predators – Caravan of Garbage Review Mr Sunday Movies hails Predators (2010) as a much-needed return to form for the franchise, ditching the shine of Alien vs. Predator for a gritty jungle hunt with a rag-tag band of mismatched warriors. It still has the visceral thrills—mud, mayhem and high-stakes survival—but layers on smart twists that make it stand out from its predecessors. He also laments that this fan-favorite never got an actual sequel, and plugs his usual bigsandwich.co extras, extended audio editions, social feeds and merch for anyone who wants more rabbit-hole rabbit punches. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Recently, a friend asked me, “What is lexical scope? Is it a type of Scope?”:). Great question!. Scope in JS often causes confusion. In this post, let’s discover Scope, Lexical scope in JavaScript Let’s start with scope. Scope determines the accessibility of variables. There are 3 types of scope: Global Function Block Global Scope Variables are declared outside any function or block Can be accessed everywhere in the code Function Scope Variables are declared inside a function Can be accessed only in a function, nested function, and can not be accessed outside of this function Block Scope Variables are declared inside a block (for, if..) (let, const) Can be accessed only in a block scope, can not be accessed outside of this block var doesn’t have block scope (because of hoisting, it will be…  ( 7 min )

When we tackle any task such as debugging code, answering questions, analysing data, completing workflows, we're essentially problem-solving agents using tools at our disposal: If it's familiar: We recall the steps from our memory or check our knowledge base If it's new: We are googling error messages, scanning Stack Overflow, pinging colleagues on Slack, tailing logs, running diagnostic commands Once we complete a task, one of two things or both happens: We document it - Add it to the wiki, create a runbook, update the knowledge base It lives in our head - We just remember "now I know how to do this" Next time the same task appears: We skip the research phase. We go straight to our documented solution or our memory. It's faster, more confident. Sometimes the old solution doesn't work anym…  ( 10 min )

It is always DNS... Sometimes It might seem as if the DNS, or the "Domain Name System", is highly unreliable. A major AWS outage was traced to an incorrectly set-up DNS entry, and the old hands (and new hands) in the industry all smiled knowingly and said "it's always DNS", even though it was really the DynamoDB global table names, the DNS was working perfectly, and nobody else would have been using that DNS entry directly. The DNS isn't really the cause of many outages and problems - but it is involved in lots of them, and has privacy leaks and performance issues. And this is because it is usually so reliable we use it for literally everything, and use it with an intensity that results in us pouring information into it as well as relying totally on the information we get back. In this p…  ( 16 min )

Good thoughts and intuition can lead to good results, but only benchmarks lead to great results. Once upon a time, I had the opportunity to build a custom data structure. We needed something like a queue to act as a cache — a rolling buffer with a constant size, always filled with the latest data as the oldest expires. The requirements sounded simple: Single writer, multiple concurrent readers Readers iterate safely while data is being written As little garbage and synchronization overhead as possible Simple, right? Naturally, the first candidates were Java’s built-in structures: Structure Pros Cons ArrayList Simple, contiguous O(n) to remove oldest element LinkedList Fast removals Creates garbage, poor cache locality ArrayDeque Nearly perfect Not thread-safe, fails under con…  ( 8 min )

Sometimes the best way to learn a new language is to solve your own problem. I'm primarily a JAMstack developer. I build static sites with Eleventy, Jekyll, and Hugo. But I had a problem: I write daily in Bear and I wanted to automatically track my word counts in Beeminder without manual logging. The catch? Both Bear by Shiny Frog and Beeminder have APIs... but they're not web APIs. They're native APIs. Which meant I needed to learn Swift. So I did. 🧑‍💻 What I learned building Bearminder: The result? The lesson: For me, this was a reminder that good developers aren't defined by their tech stack. We're defined by our willingness to learn whatever solves the problem in front of us. If you're a Bear user who also uses Beeminder (niche, I know), the code's on GitHub: https://github.com/brenn…  ( 11 min )

A few years ago, I caught myself watching the same tutorial for the third time. So, I decided to try something simple — taking notes while learning. Today, this habit has become a cornerstone of how I learn and grow as a developer. Here’s what I’ve learned along the way: 🧩 Writing in your own words reveals what you truly understand. Notion — for structured learning databases and linking concepts. In a fast-moving field like software development, the ability to learn efficiently is often more important than knowing everything. How do you approach learning in your development journey?  ( 7 min )

Your org still treats security like a nightclub with a bored bouncer. Check the ID, wave them through, hope for the best. Meanwhile, attackers stroll in with backpacks full of malware and long-lived tokens. You call it “zero trust.” I call it negligence. Identity without environment proof is cosplay. If your controls verify who’s asking but not what they’re actually running, you’ve already lost. See the pattern in recent breaches: session cookies and OAuth tokens get lifted, SSO looks “fine,” and the attacker impersonates you all the way to prod. CircleCI’s 2023 postmortem spelled it out: malware stole a 2FA-backed session and the actor escalated into production. That wasn’t a missing TLS flag; it was missing runtime verification and binding of credentials to a measured environment. :late…  ( 8 min )

AWS Cost Optimization Hub Reporting Automation This solution automates the extraction of AWS Cost Optimization Hub recommendations using AWS Lambda and stores them in Amazon S3 for further analysis and reporting. Architecture AWS Cost Optimization Hub: Source of cost optimization recommendations AWS Lambda: Processing engine for data extraction and transformation Amazon S3: Secure storage for generated CSV reports IAM Roles & Policies: Secure access control and permissions management Prerequisites AWS Account with appropriate permissions Access to AWS Cost Optimization Hub Basic understanding of AWS services (IAM, Lambda, S3) Implementation Steps Create an Amazon S3 bucket to store the generated cost optimization reports. Steps: Navigate to Amazon S3 in AWS Management Con…  ( 9 min )

Most programming languages begin with a clear intention. Formin didn’t. It started as a strange little esolang experiment built around an unusual flow-based command syntax, mostly for fun. Over time, though, something unexpected emerged: the structure turned out to be surprisingly good for concise numeric scripts and predictable control flow. That realization turned Formin from an esoteric toy into a small compiled language with a Fortran-based toolchain and a focus on math-heavy scripting. This post walks through the journey, the architecture, and some of the lessons learned while building a compiler and VM in Fortran. Origins: An Esolang With a Weird Syntax create#/greeting|'Hello!'/# color#/bright_green/# spew#/greeting|'World!/# It’s compact, rigid, and easy for an interpreter to read…  ( 7 min )

You can access the code of this chapter in the Kilo-Go github repository in the welcomescreen branch Currently your file structure should look something like this: Since we will be adding more features to the utils module, it only makes sense if we rename it from exit to utils mv exit utils File: utils/exit.go package utils import ( "fmt" "os" ) // SafeExit is a function that allows us to safely exit the program // // # It will call the provided function and exit with the provided error // if no error is provided, it will exit with 0 // // @param f - The function to call // @param err - The error to exit with func SafeExit(f func(), err error) { if f != nil { f() } if err != nil { fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "Error: %s\r\n", err) os.Exit(1) }…  ( 12 min )

OK so I was doing some project and this came into my mind: What if linux made closed sourced instead of open-source? I asked chatgpt the same question, and I thought it's pretty awesome, just take a look chat link. Let me know what do you think? or how much gpt said it was true.  ( 6 min )

🗂️ Step 1: Setting up MongoDB Atlas Username: 22cs181 Once your cluster is ready, click “Connect → Connect using MongoDB Shell” and copy the connection string. 💻** Step 2: Connect from Mongo Shell** `bash Then enter your password when prompted: Enter password: Sujitha If connection succeeds, you’ll see: Atlas atlas-xxxx-shard-0 [primary]> 📥 Step 3: Create a Database and Insert Records javascript Insert 10 sample business review records: javascript 🔍 Step 4: Queries javascript 🔤 4.2 Count of Reviews Containing “good” javascript 🏪 4.3 Get Reviews for a Specific Business ID javascript ✏️ Step 5: Update and Delete javascript 🗑️ Delete a Record javascript 📤** Step 6: Export Data to JSON/CSV** bash Then run the following from PowerShell (not inside mongosh) 👇 📄 Export as CSV bash 📦 Export as JSON bash 📊** Step 7: View the Exported Files** 🎯** Final Thoughts** Manage cloud-hosted databases Perform CRUD operations Export results in multiple formats This project demonstrates all essential MongoDB operations — perfect for Data Engineering and Database Management learning tasks.  ( 7 min )

I built a calculator that does more than just add numbers. It's a full mathematical computing environment in your terminal with logical operations, comparison operators, unit conversions, and persistent memory. This is an active project - I'm constantly working on it, adding features, fixing bugs, and improving performance. Because most CLI calculators are just arithmetic. They add, subtract, maybe handle some trig functions, and that's it. I wanted something that could handle real computational work: Compare values and return boolean results Chain logical operations with proper precedence Convert between units without leaving the terminal Store variables and reuse them across sessions Handle scientific notation properly Remember your calculation history Basically, a calculator that works …  ( 10 min )

Boost Productivity in Your BPO with AI Voice Agents Meta description: Deploy human-like AI voice agents to automate routine BPO calls, reduce average handle time (AHT), and scale operations without adding headcount. BPO teams face rising call volumes, tighter SLAs, and pressure to deliver more with the same headcount. Human-like AI voice agents automate repetitive interactions—verification, scheduling, FAQs—so skilled agents focus on high-value conversations. Learn more with the Monobot BPO solution. Manual verification and data gathering slow resolution and inflate costs. Constant hiring and training increase time to productivity and attrition. Long queues and repeat questions hurt customer satisfaction. Voice AI contains routine calls and hands off complex cases to humans with full c…  ( 7 min )

In marketing and design, visuals speak louder than any slogan. A single image can evoke trust, excitement, nostalgia, or even discomfort — emotions that profoundly shape how audiences perceive brands. But what if technology could understand these emotional reactions before a campaign ever goes live? That’s the promise of AI and visual sentiment prediction — a transformative blend of artificial intelligence, psychology, and design analytics that enables marketers to measure and predict emotional responses to visual content. With the rise of AI-powered creative intelligence, brands can now quantify what was once purely intuitive: how colors, compositions, and imagery trigger human emotions. This insight empowers them to design visuals that don’t just attract attention but connect deeply with…  ( 8 min )

Hey everyone, I’m Paulo, and I've recently started building my own products. I noticed that every time I wanted to share an idea online, I felt like I had to rewrite it to match the tone of each platform. So I built a small tool called PostIdentity. It is still early, but I am trying to understand if this idea actually helps creators or if it only solves a small personal pain of mine. I would really appreciate any honest feedback. Here are some short demos showing how it works: Post Generation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOhihIecnrw Extension: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zc7UfzwSFw0 MCP Server: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrqwAnX3B_Y Thanks for reading, Paulo  ( 6 min )

I didn't understand Git until I broke it open and rebuilt it from scratch. No libraries, no shortcuts - just SHA-256 hashing, tree structures, and commit graphs. TL;DR: I built a Git implementation in Go without using any Git libraries. No magic, just content-addressable storage and the object model. It works, it taught me more about Git in a week than years of using it, and here's what I learned. This wasn't from a single source. I pieced it together from: CodeCrafters - Their "Build Your Own Git" challenge gave me the structure and pushed me to actually implement things Random YouTube videos - Honestly, just searching "how git works internally" and watching whatever came up. Some were helpful, most weren't "Building Git" book - Wasn't really helpful for what I needed, but it did clarify …  ( 10 min )

Hi everyone! I love working with HTML, CSS, and Webflow to create elegant, structured designs that balance usability and aesthetics. #webdesign #frontend #html #css #productivity  ( 6 min )

A few weeks ago, my company, QuestionPro, provided a subscription for GitHub Copilot. I hadn't used AI to write code entirely and had never "vibe coded" before. So, I thought I'd experiment with it. TL;DR: I'm not going to vibe code again! Maybe it was my lack of vibe code experience, but I couldn't get it to work very well. I wanted to create a sync manager to sync my local data to the cloud. I'm not a backend engineer, so I described to the AI what I wanted to do. It gave me a detailed PRD (Product requirement document), which I then fed to my agent—in this case, Copilot. It created some files, but they didn't work. I shared the error, it fixed something, and then it failed to work again. After some back and forth, it finally worked (or so I thought). And guess what? It had created four …  ( 11 min )

In an age where design trends evolve faster than ever, creativity is no longer just about intuition — it’s about foresight. Brands, artists, and marketers need to anticipate what audiences will love next, not just what they love now. This is where Artificial Intelligence (AI) steps in as a visionary partner, transforming creative forecasting from guesswork into a precise, data-driven science. Creative trend forecasting powered by AI allows creators to spot emerging patterns in design, color, culture, and emotion long before they become mainstream. By analyzing millions of visual, textual, and behavioral data points, AI helps creative teams stay ahead of the curve — crafting campaigns, visuals, and products that resonate with future audiences. Traditional trend forecasting relied heavily on…  ( 8 min )

From TCP Sockets to Thread Pools: Building a Production-Grade C++ Web Framework When you type a URL into your browser and hit enter, something magical happens behind the scenes. Within milliseconds, your request travels across the internet, finds the right server, gets processed, and returns with the content you requested. But have you ever wondered what's really happening inside that web server? Building a web server from scratch strips away the magic and reveals the elegant engineering underneath. It's where operating system concepts, network programming, and concurrent computing converge into a single, cohesive system. This is the story of NanoHost - a journey from raw TCP sockets to a production-grade C++ web framework. Every web server begins with a socket - a file descriptor that a…  ( 11 min )

Exploring Backend Development with Rust and Go: Insights from Web Developer Travis McCracken As a passionate Web Developer specializing in backend technologies, I've spent a significant portion of my career exploring the strengths of languages like Rust and Go for building robust, scalable APIs. These languages are transforming backend development, offering performance, safety, and concurrency features that traditional languages often struggle to match. Today, I want to share my insights on working with Rust and Go, including some of my favorite projects — fictional, but illustrative of the kinds of ideas I love to experiment with. Rust has rapidly gained popularity among backend developers, thanks to its focus on safety and performance. Its memory safety guarantees without a garbage col…  ( 8 min )

Prologue: The Quest for IaC Experience I decided to prepare for an SRE/DevOps internship and learn Infrastructure as Code. The challenge: build a portfolio project demonstrating IaC skills, but without using clouds or paid VPS — student budget is tight, and I don't trust those “free trials” that suddenly turn into bills. I asked AI assistants for advice and got: "Use Vagrant + Ansible + Terraform!" Sounded impressive. In practice… well, let's just say it was an adventure. Installed Vagrant on my CachyOS and added plugins as recommended by Arch Wiki. Created a basic Vagrantfile — what could possibly go wrong? Error #1: The Ghost of Plugins Past undefined method 'exists?' for class File (NoMethodError) path && File.exists?(path) The vagrant-vbguest plugin had been abandoned since …  ( 7 min )

As a Software Engineer passionate about digital transformation and AI innovation, I wanted to explore how artificial intelligence can help families make smarter food decisions. This idea became the foundation for “SavvyBite” an AI-driven food budgeting and cooking companion designed to make home management smarter, cheaper, and more sustainable. The Problem: Everyday Waste, Hidden Costs Most people don’t realise how much money they lose due to poor planning. Unused groceries, forgotten leftovers, and impulsive shopping decisions add up. Beyond household budgets, this creates a significant environmental impact through energy and resource waste. That’s where technology, particularly AI and data-driven insights can make a real difference. The Solution: Predictive Food Budgeting SavvyBite’s co…  ( 7 min )

When you start a new project the temptation is to jump right into the "fun" part: writing code. Setting up linting, formatting and testing feels like "admin work" you can do later. This is a trap Fast forward two weeks, your code works but it's a mess. Formatting is inconsistent, you are terrified to refactor anything in case it breaks and adding a new feature feels like you are playing Jenga. You are living in chaos. The best time to set up your proffessional development environment is in the very beginning. A few minutes of setup now, saves you hours of pain later. This post will help you build the essential scaffolding for any pro project. Linting (Finding code problems) Formatting (Making it look consistent) Testing (Making it robust) CI/CD (Automating it all) First, let's stop arguing…  ( 9 min )

Tired of endless prompt tweaking? Jeff Su shows four ChatGPT power-moves—Prompt Reversal, the 5-Minute Amplifier, the Red Team critique loop, and Blueprint Scaffolding—that streamline your process and can literally cut your AI workload in half. Each trick comes with real-world examples you can swipe and use immediately. Plus, you get tons of bonus goodies: a free HubSpot ChatGPT ebook, blog post walkthrough, video timestamps for quick jumps, and links to Jeff’s AI course, productivity gear, and more—so no matter your role or industry, you’ve got everything you need to level up your workflow. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

As AI agents become more sophisticated and deploy across critical business functions, teams face a fundamental challenge: how do you thoroughly evaluate agent performance when real-world data is scarce, expensive, or privacy-constrained? This data scarcity problem becomes especially acute when testing edge cases, rare scenarios, or newly designed features that haven't yet accumulated production data. Synthetic data—artificially generated datasets that preserve the statistical properties and patterns of real data—has emerged as a powerful solution to this evaluation challenge. Research shows that synthetic data has been proven effective across a diverse array of tasks and domains, enabling teams to test AI agents against scenarios that would take months or years to encounter naturally. This…  ( 15 min )

Intro This demo shows how to integrate Stripe Checkout with ASP.NET Core. We handle the complete payment flow including session creation, webhook processing, and race condition management between client callbacks and server notifications. Why this matters: Stripe webhooks and client callbacks can arrive in any order. Your system needs to handle this race condition safely. This demo shows atomic state transitions and proper webhook verification for production-grade payment processing. (This demo simplifies some production implementations, explained in detail at the end.) The project contains a single ASP.NET Core application running on https://localhost:5001. Folder Structure: stripe-checkout-aspnet-demo/ ├── Controllers/ │ ├── CheckoutController.cs # Creates Stripe sessions │ ├── …  ( 10 min )

Predators – Caravan of Garbage dives back into the raw thrills of the ’80s classic by dropping a scrappy band of misfits into a muddy jungle playground and pitting them against the ultimate hunters. Unlike its weaker predecessors and the Alien vs. Predator detours, this 2010 reboot adds fresh twists that make the bloodshed feel new again. Despite the roaring fan love (and Mr Sunday Movies’ stamp of approval), we never got a true sequel to build on its momentum. If you’re craving more Predator lore with that gritty jungle vibe, this review is your ticket back to the hunt. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Generative artificial intelligence has quietly slipped into the fabric of daily existence, transforming everything from how students complete homework to how doctors diagnose chronic illnesses. What began as a technological curiosity has evolved into something far more profound: a fundamental shift in how we access information, create content, and solve problems. Yet this revolution comes with a price. As AI systems become increasingly sophisticated, they're also becoming more invasive, more biased, and more capable of disrupting the economic foundations upon which millions depend. The next twelve months will determine whether this technology becomes humanity's greatest tool or its most troubling challenge. Walk into any secondary school today and you'll witness a transformation that would…  ( 25 min )

As AI applications move from prototype to production, teams face a critical challenge: how do you systematically measure whether your AI agent is actually performing well? Generic benchmarks like MMLU or HumanEval provide baseline metrics, but they rarely capture the specific quality criteria that matter for your use case. This is where custom evaluators become essential. Custom evaluators allow teams to quantify performance based on application-specific requirements, moving beyond generic metrics to measure what truly matters for their users. Whether you're building a customer support agent, a code generation system, or a medical diagnosis tool, the ability to create tailored evaluation metrics can be the difference between shipping a reliable product and dealing with production failures.…  ( 13 min )

We just shipped a brand‑new Community Dashboard on TailView.work—purpose‑built for Rails developers who want a fast, modern, and accessible social surface without pulling in a front‑end megaframework. It’s powered by Tailwind CSS, Hotwire (Turbo + Stimulus), and real‑time updates via ActionCable. Built with Rails 7+, Tailwind, Turbo, Stimulus, and ActionCable Real‑time feed: new posts appear instantly without page refresh Clean, focused UI with native and for accessibility Thoughtful UX: keyboard‑first, high‑contrast states, reduced JS complexity Production‑ready patterns you can copy into your app Rails teams told us they needed: A real‑time, low‑friction place to share what they’re shipping Zero‑build, no‑webpack front‑end they can actually maintain An interface that f…  ( 7 min )

Flawed prompts derail AI projects before they start. Teams burn weeks adjusting prompts without testing frameworks, producing unreliable outputs that erode user confidence. Vague prompts cause AI models to hallucinate or contradict themselves—imagine a support chatbot asking customers to repeat information they already shared. Careless prompt design also opens security holes, allowing attackers to inject malicious commands that hijack the system. This guide covers prompt engineering best practices that prevent these failures and help you extract maximum value from AI models. Well-organized prompts produce reliable AI responses. Breaking your instructions into distinct sections prevents confusion and ensures the model understands exactly what you need. Think of prompt structure as the arc…  ( 9 min )

Even though Large Language Models (LLMs) appear to expertly understand and generate language, the truth is, like any other computer technology, they only deal in zeros and ones. So, how can an LLM, which only knows 0s and 1s, engage in such deep conversations with us using language? The first piece of that puzzle lies in what we're talking about today: the 'Token'. In this post, we're going to dive into what tokens—the literal cells of an LLM—actually are, why they are so crucial, and how these small units impact AI performance, cost, and even linguistic fairness. As always, we'll keep the math to a minimum. Let's start by uncovering the identity of the token. Simply put, a token is the basic unit an LLM uses to process text. Still a bit vague? Take the sentence, "I am hungry." If you want…  ( 17 min )

Confirmation was finished ✅️ ✅️ Our apimock-rs supports both of: 🚪 Listener to external interfaces (all interfaces) ❄️ IPv6 https://apimokka.github.io/apimock-rs/advanced-topics/listener/index.html It is a developer-friendly, featherlight and functional HTTP(S) mock server built in Rust 🩵  ( 6 min )

This will probably only serve my terrible memory in a couple of months when I revisit the topic and I have forgotten how I made it work, but I've heard AI guys are running out of training material so... From their ownrepo: GNSS-SDR This program is a software-defined receiver which is able to process (that is, to perform detection, synchronization, demodulation and decoding of the navigation message, computation of observables, and, finally, computation of position fixes) Global Navigation Satellite System's signals LNA GNSS Antenna (in my case this) RTLSDR V3-V4 recommended since they have software enabled Bias Tee Computer running Debian based system (Debian 9, Ubuntu 14.10 or above, in my case Ubuntu 24.04). From the README.md we can just follow along and install: $ sudo apt install bui…  ( 10 min )

Over the past months I've been building Genesis DB, an event-sourcing database engine designed around simplicity, performance, and real-world usability. Recently, I released the Genesis DB Community Edition. Completely free to use. Genesis DB CE is the freely available version of the database engine. Built for developers who want to explore event sourcing without friction, or use it productively in small-to-large projects. The goal isn't to limit you, it's to lower the barrier to entry. The Community Edition focuses on accessibility and learning, not artificial constraints. It's powered by the same core engine as the commercial edition, the same performance, the same reliability, the same expectations for serious developers. Docs: https://docs.genesisdb.io  ( 6 min )

Three weeks of network tracing revealed the truth: 73% of “AI startups” are thin wrappers running million-dollar hype on borrowed APIs. The $33M AI Startup Running on a $1.2K OpenAI Bill” Let’s be honest: half of what’s called “AI innovation” right now is just ChatGPT with a startup hoodie. I’m not saying that to be edgy I literally reverse-engineered 200 “AI startups” over three weeks. I looked at their network calls, tech stacks, and API usage. The results? About 73% of them were just pretty frontends sitting on top of OpenAI or Anthropic, some LangChain magic sprinkled in, and a fancy landing page claiming “proprietary AI.” It’s the new gold rush: everyone’s building “AI platforms,” but under the hood it’s the same OpenAI key, a Firebase DB, and an $89/month Vercel plan. A few even lef…  ( 12 min )

Dynamic Theming: A Developer’s Guide to Adaptive Color in UI Mike Vardy ・ Nov 9 #frontend #designsystem #uxdesign #ux  ( 6 min )

Reinventing Kubernetes in 2025: a post-mortem of my “simple” stack ・ Nov 5 #webdev #programming #kubernetes #devops  ( 5 min )

Level Up Your SPA: Advanced Performance Optimization for Beginners Ever visited a website that felt sluggish and unresponsive? That's the opposite of what we want for our Single Page Applications (SPAs)! While SPAs offer fantastic user experiences with their dynamic interfaces, they can sometimes struggle with performance if not properly optimized. But don't worry, you don't need to be a performance guru to make a real difference. Let's dive into some advanced, yet accessible, optimization techniques. A slow SPA isn't just annoying; it can seriously impact your project's success. Think about it: User Experience: Nobody likes waiting. Slow loading times and laggy interactions lead to frustrated users who are more likely to abandon your app. SEO: Search engines like Google consider pag…  ( 8 min )

How AI Foundations Like GPT‑4 Are Changing the Way Science Works Imagine a lab partner that never sleeps, can read millions of papers in seconds, and even suggests fresh experiments. Scientists have discovered that powerful AI tools such as GPT‑4 and AlphaFold are becoming that partner, turning the traditional “think‑then‑test” routine into a faster, smarter adventure. It’s a breakthrough that promises everyday benefits—healthier drugs reaching us sooner and smarter solutions for climate challenges. Stay curious and watch the science of tomorrow unfold today. Read article comprehensive review in Paperium.net: Foundation Models for Scientific Discovery: From Paradigm Enhancement toParadigm Transition 🤖 This analysis and review was primarily generated and structured by an AI . The content is provided for informational and quick-review purposes.  ( 22 min )

The Big Picture: What Are We Even Testing? When you're analyzing data and want to test hypotheses, you need to choose the right statistical test. But here's the thing: not all tests are created equal, and not all data fits the same mold. This is where the distinction between parametric and non-parametric tests becomes crucial. Think of it as choosing between two different toolkits ie one requires your data to meet certain conditions, the other is more flexible. Keep in mind these central questions: "Does my data follow a specific distribution?" ie This determines which approach you can use. "What assumptions am I willing to make about my data?" ie This is the heart of the parametric vs non-parametric choice. Okay we'll go through parametric tests, then non-parametric then we'll compare t…  ( 9 min )

In an era where every byte of data holds value, it's easy to overlook the foundational importance of highly accurate, up-to-date geospatial data within automotive navigation systems. Beyond simply showing "where to go," modern map data plays a critical, often hidden, role in enhancing fuel efficiency and refining the overall driver experience. For developers building connected car applications, understanding this relationship is key to unlocking true value. Fuel Efficiency: Beyond the Powertrain While engine and aerodynamic design are primary drivers of fuel efficiency, intelligent navigation systems, powered by precise map data, offer significant secondary gains. Predictive Powertrain Control (PPC): Advanced ADAS features use map data to "look ahead" at road gradients, curves, and upcomin…  ( 7 min )

Jeff Su reveals four ChatGPT hacks that halve your AI workflow: Prompt Reversal Technique, the 5-Minute Amplifier, Red Team self-critique, and Blueprint Scaffolding. These tricks help you reverse-engineer winning prompts, repurpose a single idea across formats, force ChatGPT to critique its own output, and map its thought process before execution. They’re super-easy to apply in any role or industry—and save you hours of trial and error. Dive into the illustrated examples in his free ebook and blog post to get started fast. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

How to persist data in Python? import simpsave as ss ss.write('key', [1, 2, 3]) print(ss.read('key1').append(4)) # [1, 2, 3, 4] If the project helps you, please feel free to give it a Star on GitHub :) https://github.com/Water-Run/SimpSave SimpSave is a Python featherweight key-value storage database for Python basic variables, leveraging Python's native powerful data structure support, "read-and-use", extremely easy to get started with, very suitable for use in various small scripts such as student assignments, or as configuration files, etc. SimpSave 10 is a major upgrade, bringing optional engine capabilities: the engine wrapper for sqlite provides it with a usable level in some lightweight production environments (although the functional API has no connection pool mechanism); while fo…  ( 12 min )

Everything Wrong With Sinners In 15 Minutes Or Less is Cinemasins’ cheeky Halloween video where they gleefully nitpick one of the year’s best genre films in record time—while also plugging their main site, YouTube spin-off channels and a fan poll (plus a Patreon shout-out if you’re feeling generous). The episode credits a dream team of writers (Jeremy, Chris, Aaron, Jonathan, Deneé, Ian and Daniel) and points viewers to their Discord, Reddit, Instagram, TikTok and Jeremy’s book through a handy Linktree for even more sinful fun. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

TL;DR CinemaSins just released a snarky 20-minute deep-dive on everything wrong with Thunderbolts—and, of course, they still can’t help but wonder if the flick’s kinda awesome anyway. Expect the usual “sins” countdown with cheeky commentary from Jeremy, Chris, Aaron, Jonathan, Deneé, Ian and Daniel. Wanna join the party? Hit up their website, Discord, Reddit and social channels, cast your vote in the “sinful poll,” or toss a few coins their way on Patreon to keep the jokes coming. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Python Web Frameworks: Crafting the Future of Web Development Introduction: The Pythonic Revolution in Web Development Python has transcended its origins as a general-purpose programming language to become a cornerstone of modern web development. Its simplicity, readability, and vast ecosystem empower developers to create everything from simple websites to complex, AI-driven web applications. At the heart of this revolution lie Python web frameworks—tools that streamline development, enforce best practices, and accelerate deployment. Why Python for Web Development? Readability & Maintainability: Python’s clean syntax reduces cognitive load, making codebases easier to maintain. Rich Ecosystem: Libraries for AI, data science, and cybersecurity integrate seamlessly with web frameworks. Commun…  ( 8 min )

1️⃣ HTML – HyperText Markup Language 2️⃣ CSS – Cascading Style Sheets 3️⃣ JS – JavaScript 4️⃣ API – Application Programming Interface 5️⃣ SDK – Software Development Kit 6️⃣ SQL – Structured Query Language 7️⃣ JSON – JavaScript Object Notation 8️⃣ OOP – Object-Oriented Programming 9️⃣ IDE – Integrated Development Environment 🔟 HTTP – HyperText Transfer Protocol 1️⃣1️⃣ HTTPS – HyperText Transfer Protocol Secure 1️⃣2️⃣ DOM – Document Object Model 1️⃣3️⃣ REST – Representational State Transfer 1️⃣4️⃣ AJAX – Asynchronous JavaScript and XML 1️⃣5️⃣ XML – eXtensible Markup Language 1️⃣6️⃣ TCP/IP – Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol 1️⃣7️⃣ UI – User Interface 1️⃣8️⃣ UX – User Experience 1️⃣9️⃣ CLI – Command Line Interface 2️⃣0️⃣ MVC – Model-View-Controller 2️⃣1️⃣ CRUD – Create, Read, Update, Delete 2️⃣2️⃣ JSON – JavaScript Object Notation 2️⃣3️⃣ SQL – Structured Query Language 2️⃣4️⃣ FTP – File Transfer Protocol 2️⃣5️⃣ VPN – Virtual Private Network 💬 Tap ❤️ for more!  ( 6 min )

AI agents are transforming intelligent automation, and Mastra is leading the way. In this post, I’ll show how I built the Findwork Agent — an AI that fetches real job listings and interacts naturally with users. What Mastra is and how it works Setting up your Google API key (via AI Studio) Understanding the A2A Protocol and multi-agent interaction Creating and deploying your agent to Mastra Cloud Integrating your agent with Telex 🧠 What Is Mastra? Mastra is an open-source framework for building intelligent AI agents that can reason, use external APIs, and communicate with others via the A2A protocol. Check out the documentation to learn more about Mastra and installation. A name Instructions (its role and tone) Tools (functions or APIs it can call) And an execution …  ( 12 min )

This scenario teaches you how to see what will change in the cluster BEFORE applying YAML, similar to Git diff but for Kubernetes. This is extremely useful in real DevOps workflows, especially CI/CD pipelines. Most cloud environments (GKE, EKS, AKS, Cloud Shell) already have it. Check: kubectl diff --help If it shows help output, you're good. Create file: # diff-deploy.yaml apiVersion: apps/v1 kind: Deployment metadata: name: diff-nginx spec: replicas: 2 selector: matchLabels: app: diff-nginx template: metadata: labels: app: diff-nginx spec: containers: - name: nginx image: nginx:1.21 ports: - containerPort: 80 Apply it: kubectl apply -f diff-deploy.yaml Verify: kubectl get deploy diff-nginx kubectl get pods -l …  ( 7 min )

In the age of connected cars, over-the-air (OTA) updates, and advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS), we often focus on the gleaming software features and sophisticated AI. Yet, there's a foundational layer that often gets overlooked, silently undermining the performance and safety of these cutting-edge vehicles: the geospatial data – your car's navigation maps. Many developers and product managers focus heavily on the user interface, routing algorithms, or new infotainment apps. But what happens when the map data itself is stale? The consequences range from minor frustrations to significant safety hazards, often revealing the true "technical debt" of an overlooked data pipeline. The Disconnect: Advanced Features vs. Obsolete Reality Imagine developing a sophisticated EV routing algorit…  ( 8 min )

Ever since I started getting interested in data and databases, SQL kept coming up everywhere. Job descriptions mentioned it, developers talked about it, and every data tutorial seemed to assume you knew it. I knew I should learn it, but something about "writing queries" and "working with databases" sounded... technical. Intimidating, even. What is SQL, anyway? SQL stands for Structured Query Language, but that formal name doesn't really tell you much. Here's what it actually is: it's how you ask questions to a database. SELECT * FROM users; I hit "Run" and... boom. A table full of data appeared on my screen. It felt too easy. Like there had to be more to it. But nope,that simplicity is exactly what makes SQL so useful. became my bread and butter. These two let me filter through data and g…  ( 8 min )

The SVG Mess We All Live In Let’s be honest: handling SVGs in modern web development is a fragmented mess. If you're on a React project, you npm install @svgr/webpack. The moment you switch to a Vue project, you're wrestling with vite-svg-loader. Working on a Svelte app? Time to find another package. Each tool comes with its own API, its own configuration, and—worst of all—its own mountain of transitive dependencies. A simple npm install @svgr/cli can dump over 15 packages and 18MB into your node_modules. This isn't just about disk space. It's about: Slower CI/CD pipelines A larger security attack surface Inconsistent workflows across your projects We've normalized this "one tool per framework" approach, but it's an anti-pattern. It’s time for a better solution. svger-cli: The Un…  ( 9 min )

In an era where audio content is everywhere — from lectures and webinars to podcasts and business meetings — the ability to convert speech into editable text quickly and accurately is crucial. Audio Converter AI is a web-based tool that promises high-accuracy AI transcription, speaker recognition, timestamps, and smart notes — all without signing up. The first impression is simplicity. The homepage guides you directly to upload audio files, with no distractions or complicated menus. You can: Drag and drop your audio (up to 1GB per file). Queue up to five files at a time. Choose your desired transcription options instantly. Everything happens in-browser, which means no installation is needed, and the interface is intuitive for students, content creators, and business professionals alike. H…  ( 7 min )

Right Team, Right Funding: The Unseen Connection In the high-stakes world of entrepreneurship, having a brilliant idea is just the beginning. The team behind your venture is crucial in securing the funding needed to bring your vision to life. Investors don't just bet on ideas—they bet on people. So, how can the right team enhance your ability to raise funds? Diverse Skillsets Attract Interest A well-rounded team with diverse skills can cover various aspects of business growth, from technical development to marketing strategy. This diversity not only demonstrates preparedness but also reduces perceived risk for investors, increasing their likelihood of backing your project. Proven Track Record Builds Trust Investors look for teams with a history of success. A proven track record, whether in past ventures or relevant industry experience, can significantly boost investor confidence. Highlighting a team member's previous successes in pitches can be a game-changer. Unified Vision Inspires Confidence A team that shares a unified vision showcases stability and commitment, key factors for investors. Consistency in your pitch and clear communication of goals indicate that the team is on the same page, ready to tackle challenges together. Leveraging technology like LeKlub-AI can make finding your perfect co-founder easier, ensuring your team has the right mix of skills and experience. Why leave it to chance when AI can help craft your dream team? Ready to match with your ideal co-founder and increase your funding chances? Try LeKlub-AI today and build a team that investors can't resist.  ( 6 min )

Introduction "What should I have for lunch?" "Should I try this new library?" From daily small decisions to technical choices, we face countless decisions every day. Why not let the universe decide for you? I built a CLI tool called "should-i" that helps you make decisions by consulting the yesno.wtf API. In this article, I'll share the implementation details and technical insights. should-i is a simple CLI tool that answers your questions with YES/NO/MAYBE. It also returns a GIF image URL, making the experience more engaging and visual. With the --open option, the tool automatically opens the response GIF in your browser: $ should-i "take a coffee break" --open 🎲 Asking the universe... ✅ YES! Do it! 🎉 🖼️ https://yesno.wtf/assets/yes/3.gif # Browser opens with the GIF automatically …  ( 12 min )

ReplicaSets ensure that the desired number of Pods is always running. If a Pod is deleted manually → ReplicaSet AUTO-CREATES a new one. # rs-nginx.yaml apiVersion: apps/v1 kind: ReplicaSet metadata: name: nginx-rs spec: replicas: 3 selector: matchLabels: app: nginx-demo template: metadata: labels: app: nginx-demo spec: containers: - name: nginx image: nginx:1.25 ports: - containerPort: 80 Apply: kubectl apply -f rs-nginx.yaml kubectl get rs kubectl get pods -o wide You should see 3 Pods with random hash-like suffixes: nginx-rs-7dd8f995f5-rkzfx nginx-rs-7dd8f995f5-pxbgl nginx-rs-7dd8f995f5-7cj2p Pick any one: kubectl delete pod nginx-rs-7dd8f995f5-rkzfx Watch Pods: kubectl get pods -w Expected behavior: Deleted Pod goes away ReplicaSet automatically creates a NEW pod Count stays at 3 always Example: pod "nginx-rs-xxx" deleted pod "nginx-rs-newxxx" created 🎉 ReplicaSet self-healing verified! ⚠️ Self-Healing Works Only If Labels Match Selector If you edit the Pod labels: kubectl label pod POD_NAME app- → ReplicaSet stops managing it Increase replicas: kubectl scale rs nginx-rs --replicas=5 Decrease: kubectl scale rs nginx-rs --replicas=2 🌟 Thanks for reading! If this post added value, a like ❤️, follow, or share would encourage me to keep creating more content. — Latchu | Senior DevOps & Cloud Engineer ☁️ AWS | GCP | ☸️ Kubernetes | 🔐 Security | ⚡ Automation 📌 Sharing hands-on guides, best practices & real-world cloud solutions  ( 7 min )

Cover Photo by Peter Olexa on Unsplash You've probably noticed it. You're watching a video on YouTube in dark mode, and the area around the video starts to softly glow, picking up the colors from the content itself. That, my friends, is "Ambient Mode." It's a subtle but powerful UI technique that makes the experience feel more immersive and integrated. It looks like a complex, big-budget feature, but what if I told you it's an effect you can add to your own projects? This isn't just a gimmick. It's a powerful way to create a more cohesive user experience. But how do they do it? And how can we do it without a massive engineering team? Let's dig in. When YouTube rolled out its redesign in October 2022, Ambient Mode was the star. According to their design team, they use "dynamic color samplin…  ( 9 min )

How to Choose the Right IaC tool ? Cloud strategy: If AWS-only → CloudFormation is very strong. If multi-cloud/hybrid → Terraform or Pulumi shine. Team skillset: If your team are software developers comfortable in Python/TypeScript → Pulumi may fit. If team are infra/devops engineers and you want a declarative DSL → Terraform. Configuration vs provisioning: If the focus is on provisioning infrastructure (network, compute, storage) → Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation. If focus is on configuring/making servers converge to a desired state (installing packages, OS config) → Ansible, Puppet, Chef. Ecosystem & scale: Larger enterprises may need features like drift detection, auditing, compliance controls. Tools like Puppet/Chef, or robust workflows around Terraform may matter. State & lifecycle management: E.g., Terraform’s state file, locking, remote back-ends. Understanding how updates happen, rollbacks, change sets (CloudFormation) is important. Emerging/modern patterns: Use of general-purpose languages for IaC (like Pulumi) and “infrastructure from code” (beyond just text templates) is gaining ground. Also interesting: Kubernetes-native abstractions (for container workloads) and GitOps patterns. Scenario Recommended Tool Why Multi-cloud / hybrid infra Terraform Provider-agnostic, reusable modules, strong ecosystem AWS-only environment CloudFormation Tight AWS integration, built-in drift detection Developer-driven org (Infra + App in code) Pulumi Uses familiar languages, good abstraction Config management or hybrid servers Ansible Simple agentless automation via SSH Azure-centric setup Bicep Simpler syntax over ARM templates Legacy enterprise infra Puppet / Chef Rich compliance and policy frameworks The Future of IaC The next evolution is Intelligent IaC, powered by Generative AI. Auto-generate Terraform from natural language prompts. Suggest optimal infrastructure topologies. Validate policies via LLMs. AI + IaC = Self-Healing Infrastructure !!! And we’re closer than you think.  ( 6 min )

As a developer, I wanted to create a portfolio page that showcases my skills and experience in a unique way. I decided to go with a magazine-style concept, as it looks clean and easy to read. I divided my portfolio into three views: resume, timeline, and gallery. Each view displays the same career data but in a different format. Resume Page: A clean and traditional resume-style page. Timeline: A timeline view that organizes my experience in chronological order. Gallery: A gallery view that showcases my projects in detail. Each page has a distinct feel and purpose, allowing me to highlight different aspects of my portfolio. I experimented with various hover effects and settled on a color pencil underline effect. The implementation turned out better than expected. When creating the project details page, I worried that lengthy content would deter readers. To address this, I highlighted key points with underlines, making it easy to scan and understand the project's essence. The timeline's responsive design was the most challenging aspect. Initially, the columns would overflow, and overflow-x: auto would break the position: sticky property. After a day of troubleshooting, I resolved the issue using transform: scale(), which scales the entire timeline to fit within the viewport on smaller screens. On the resume and timeline pages, clicking on a project displays a brief summary in the sidebar. This design choice prevents the project overview from disrupting the page's flow, allowing readers to expand or collapse the summary as needed. Through this project, I learned that the way data is presented significantly impacts the user experience. I will continue to experiment with different formats and designs to create engaging and effective portfolios. You can visit my portfolio page at: https://readmekym.vercel.app/  ( 7 min )

Post-Quantum TLS Readiness: a 90-Day Remediation Sprint for SMBs This is a hands-on playbook to move an SMB from “we should look at PQC” to Post-Quantum TLS Readiness in 90 days—without breaking client traffic or chasing unstable stacks. You’ll inventory crypto, pilot hybrid KEM handshakes in staging, coordinate vendors, roll out PQ-ready configs with a clean rollback, and prove success with objective metrics. Why now: Cryptographically agile systems reduce migration risk when PQC is mandated by your customers or regulators. What changes: TLS 1.3 stays; key exchange adds a hybrid KEM group (e.g., X25519+ML-KEM/Kyber). Signatures for certificates and mTLS can remain ECDSA/RSA for now. How to do it safely: Pilot hybrids in staging, measure latency/CPU, deploy behind a feature flag / canar…  ( 11 min )

This is a submission for the Agentic Postgres Challenge with Tiger Data I built an autonomous self-healing system that detects application issues, tests fixes on isolated database forks, and applies solutions automatically - eliminating the need for 3 AM pages and manual incident response. As developers, we've all been there: woken up at 3 AM because the connection pool is exhausted, or watching response times spike due to a missing index. The same issues repeat across applications, yet we manually fix them every time. I wanted to build a system that learns from these experiences and heals itself. The framework uses three intelligent agents that work together: Monitor Agent - Continuously observes application health (error rates, response times, resource usage) Healer Agent - Searches a kn…  ( 10 min )

Works seamlessly with MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL — no MongoDB required. Every Laravel developer has been there — you start a new project, define your migrations, and by default, your models use auto-incrementing IDs. It works fine... until your app grows, you need distributed systems, API integrations, or microservices. Suddenly, those integer IDs start to look like a limitation. That’s where Laravel ObjectId comes in — a drop-in, ultra-fast, globally unique identifier system inspired by MongoDB’s ObjectIds, designed for MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL — no MongoDB required. Unlike UUIDs or ULIDs, ObjectIds are compact 12-byte identifiers that encode timestamp, randomness, and a counter — making them sortable, lightweight, and unique across systems. In numeric terms, they’re up to 3× fa…  ( 8 min )

On Microsoft Windows, an application can stop responding, and closing it using the GUI might be impossible. If you have ever found yourself in such a situation, I can tell you that you can close such an application using the Windows command line utility. The following steps are how to go about it. There are several ways to do this. You can click the Start menu icon (on Windows 11) and search for Command Prompt. Or, if you want, you can open CMD by doing the following: Open the Windows Run dialog box by pressing and holding both the Windows Key and R on your keyboard. Type cmd and press the enter key on your keyboard. Note the name of the application that you'd like to forcefully shut down. Then type the following in the CMD. The successful execution of the following command will list all t…  ( 7 min )

WTF is this: Bare Metal Cloud Ah, cloud computing – the magical land where our data and apps live, and we don't have to worry about the plumbing. Or do we? Today, we're going to talk about a type of cloud that's a bit more... well, let's just say, "down-to-earth." Say hello to the Bare Metal Cloud! What is Bare Metal Cloud? In simple terms, Bare Metal Cloud is a type of cloud computing where you rent a physical server (the "bare metal") from a provider, but still get the benefits of cloud-like flexibility and scalability. Think of it like renting a house – you get the whole place to yourself, but you still have to take care of the furniture and decor (i.e., the software and apps). With Bare Metal Cloud, you have complete control over the underlying hardware, which can be a big deal for cer…  ( 11 min )

Built for Google Play Compliance: Navigating the 14-Day Testing Requirement A Comprehensive Guide for Android Developers As an Android developer, you're likely no stranger to the complexities of publishing on the Google Play Store. With each update, new policies and requirements emerge, making it increasingly challenging to meet the standards set by Google. In November 2023, a significant change was introduced: all new personal developer accounts must complete 14 consecutive days of closed testing with at least 12 active testers. This policy shift has left many developers scrambling to adapt, but fear not – we've got you covered. In an effort to ensure the quality and security of apps published on its platform, Google introduced this new requirement. The goal is to provide a m…  ( 7 min )

🔊 Listen Now 🎙️ Click here to listen on Madhu Sudhan Subedi Tech Weekly → Dynamic Method Calls in PHP Are dynamic method calls in PHP a clever shortcut or a hidden trap? Techniques like constructing method names at runtime—such as $this->{$variable}()—can add flexibility, especially in frameworks or libraries. But they come with significant downsides. IDEs struggle to trace these calls, making refactoring and code navigation harder. Methods invoked dynamically might be flagged as unused or overlooked entirely, increasing the risk of bugs and wasted debugging time. Link When Your Boss Starts Coding with LLMs: The New Shape of Team Collaboration What happens when non-engineers—like your boss or sales rep—start submitting pull requests with help from large language models? It’s not …  ( 9 min )

From TCP Sockets to Thread Pools: Building a Production-Grade C++ Web Framework Note: This is an advanced technical deep-dive into systems programming concepts. We'll explore TCP/IP networking, multithreading primitives, asynchronous request handling, and production-grade architectural patterns in C++. Introduction Architecture Overview TCP/IP Socket Programming POSIX Thread Pool Implementation HTTP Protocol Layer Routing Engine Architecture Design Patterns & Architectural Decisions Asynchronous Request Processing Flow CLI Configuration & Extensibility Conclusion Modern web servers are complex systems that orchestrate multiple OS-level concepts: socket programming, multithreading, synchronization primitives, and protocol handling. In this article, we'll dissect NanoHost, a lightweight y…  ( 15 min )

Introduction In modern web development, writing maintainable, testable, and scalable code is paramount. One design pattern that has become fundamental to achieving these goals is dependency injection (DI). Whether you're building a backend API with NestJS or a dynamic frontend with Angular, understanding dependency injection will significantly improve your code quality and development workflow. Dependency injection is more than just a buzzword—it's a powerful technique that removes hard-coded dependencies and promotes loose coupling between components. This leads to code that is easier to test, modify, and extend. In this guide, we'll explore how dependency injection works across the TypeScript ecosystem, with practical examples in TypeScript, NestJS, and Angular. Dependency Injection is…  ( 14 min )

Most folks spend ages tweaking prompts to get decent results, but with these four tricks—Prompt Reversal, 5-Minute Amplifier, Red Team Technique, and Blueprint Scaffolding—you’ll slice your ChatGPT back-and-forth in half. Jeff Su walks you through real examples to reverse-engineer killer prompts, spin one piece of content into multiple formats, force AI to critique itself, and outline its reasoning before it dives in. These hacks work across any role or industry and can be applied today. Plus, Jeff’s got extras like a free ebook, a detailed blog post, and an AI course waitlist to help you supercharge your workflow. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

CinemaSins just unleashed a playful “Everything Wrong With” take on what they’re calling one of the year’s best genre movies—packed into a 15-minute roast that’s equal parts snark and spooky Halloween cheer. They’re also hyping up their whole ecosystem: hit up cinemasins.com, dive into their YouTube spin-offs (TVSins, CommercialSins, CinemaSins Podcast), join the poll or support them on Patreon, and link up on Discord, Reddit, Instagram, TikTok and more. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Everything Wrong With Thunderbolts* (The New Avengers) In 20 Minutes Or Less is your classic CinemaSins deep-dive, roasting every plot hole, cringe line, and “why is that even there?” moment in Marvel’s latest—but also wondering if the flick’s secretly awesome. Beyond the sin count, you get a buffet of CinemaSins goodies—hit up their main site or Linktree for extra vids and channels (@TVSins, @CommercialSins, @CinemaSinsPodcastNetwork), join the Discord and Reddit communities, fill out their sinful poll, or support the squad on Patreon. Don’t forget to follow the sin-smiths (Jeremy, Chris, Aaron, Jonathan, Deneé, Ian, Daniel) on Twitter and Insta for your daily nitpick fix! Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Let’s dive into the best no-code app builders for startups in 2025. Please note: This content utilizes AI writing technology and may include businesses I'm affiliated with. I spent more than 60 hours testing top no-code tools, aiming to discover which platforms genuinely help startups launch and iterate apps with zero coding needed. This guide reflects direct experience, practical evaluation, and side-by-side comparisons, so you get honest feedback with no hype. With about five years in SaaS and mobile product development, I’ve worked with or reviewed nearly every major no-code and low-code builder. I’ve experienced the truly seamless, the underwhelming, and everything in between. This is a guide for startup founders who want a clear path to the tools that will support-not slow down-their …  ( 14 min )

From Vibe Coder to Vibe Architect — Evolving from Implementation to Strategy “The journey from Vibe Coder to Vibe Architect is not just about technical growth — it’s about elevating your influence and ensuring that not only do individual features feel right, but that the entire system is built right.” In today’s development world, many talented front-end and creative developers possess a unique “vibe” — a sensitivity to aesthetics, emotion, and user experience that guides how they build. These developers are what we call Vibe Coders. A Vibe Coder works primarily on intuition and feedback loops: Driven by aesthetic sensibility and emotional resonance Motivated by immediate visual feedback Deeply focused on how things feel, not just how they work Typical domains include: Fro…  ( 8 min )

This wasn’t a quick weekend project. It’s been a long, challenging, and insanely rewarding journey turning an idea into a real, production-level SaaS product. Pulse HMS is designed to make hospital and clinic workflows smarter, faster, and more human-centered. I wanted to create something that goes beyond just managing patients and appointments — something that feels like a real system used by actual staff and patients. Here’s a glimpse of what’s inside 👇 🩺 Core Features Smart Appointment System with real-time status tracking QR Code Check-ins for patients Detailed Patient Records, History & Reports AI-based “What’s Changed?” summaries for doctors Instant Mini Reports generated with AI templates Offline Booking Cache (works even if internet drops) Print Mode with brand-aligned clean layouts Fake Data Mode for demos & staff training Role-based Access (Admin, Doctor, Receptionist, Patient) Mobile-first Patient View + Desktop Admin Panel 💻 Tech Stack 💡 Why I Built It ⚙️ What’s Next Integrating AI-powered analytics Enhancing the patient-facing dashboard Deploying a live demo for hospitals and clinics Adding support for multilingual and local regions This project pushed my limits as a developer — from UI/UX decisions to backend performance, it’s been pure learning and growth. Excited to share more updates and a full walkthrough soon! BuildInPublic #PulseHMS #SaaS #Nextjs #Python #HealthcareTech #FullStack #DeveloperJourney  ( 7 min )

This is a submission for Frontend Challenge - Halloween Edition, Perfect Landing Hey everyone! I’m excited to share my project - GhoulEats, a spooky and interactive restaurant website built with React, Vite, Tailwind, React router and Framer Motion. This project is special to me because it pushed me to explore motion design, creative theming, and UI storytelling all in a short span of a few days. I started around November 6th, and from then till November 9th, I poured everything I had into bringing this haunted concept to life. GhoulEats is a Halloween-themed restaurant website that blends creativity, design, and interactivity. It’s not just about pages it’s an entire spooky dining experience built for the web. Each page has its own eerie charm from creepy AI-generated chefs to animated me…  ( 7 min )

You will learn: ✔ Create a Secret (base64-encoded data) You can create a Secret from CLI or YAML. First encode values in base64: echo -n "admin" | base64 → YWRtaW4= echo -n "SuperSecretPassword123" | base64 → U3VwZXJTZWNyZXRQYXNzd29yZDEyMw== apiVersion: v1 kind: Secret metadata: name: demo-secret type: Opaque data: username: YWRtaW4= password: U3VwZXJTZWNyZXRQYXNzd29yZDEyMw== Apply it: kubectl apply -f secret.yaml Verify: kubectl get secret demo-secret -o yaml You will see base64 strings — this is normal. Create pod-secret-env.yaml: apiVersion: v1 kind: Pod metadata: name: secret-env-demo spec: containers: - name: demo-container image: busybox command: ["sh", "-c", "sleep 3600"] env: - name: DB_USERNAME valueFrom: secretK…  ( 7 min )

Introduction Ever needed powerful search capabilities in your application but dreaded the complexity of managing Elasticsearch or OpenSearch? You're not alone. While these dedicated search engines are powerful, they introduce significant operational overhead: another cluster to deploy, ETL pipelines to maintain, and constant synchronization headaches. What if you could get search engine capabilities directly inside PostgreSQL? That's exactly what pg_search offers. In this post, I'll walk you through what pg_search is, why it can't run on Amazon RDS, and how we architected a solution using EC2 that keeps everything in PostgreSQL while delivering modern search features. pg_search is a PostgreSQL extension from ParadeDB that transforms your database into a full-featured search engine. Inste…  ( 11 min )

How AI Doctors Get Smarter with Rubric Training Ever wondered how a chatbot could give you reliable medical advice? Scientists have created a new teaching method called ORBIT that helps AI learn like a medical student using simple scorecards. Rubric‑guided learning shows that even complex, open‑ended tasks can be mastered with the right feedback, opening the door to smarter, more trustworthy AI companions. Exciting times ahead for AI in medicine. Read article comprehensive review in Paperium.net: InfiMed-ORBIT: Aligning LLMs on Open-Ended Complex Tasks via Rubric-BasedIncremental Training 🤖 This analysis and review was primarily generated and structured by an AI . The content is provided for informational and quick-review purposes.  ( 22 min )

As a solo developer, my biggest challenge isn't coding—it's efficiency. Every hour I spend fighting tooling or boilerplate is an hour I’m not spending on features. Let me be clear: I embrace Go (Golang). It is an outstanding language for raw performance, systems programming, and concurrent processing. 😩 The Go Conundrum: Too Much Boilerplate, Not Enough Structure The Code Organization Headache This was my biggest source of friction. In a large Go application, there’s no official, standard framework to guide structure. I spent countless hours trying to define the “best” way to organize my code, shuffling directories, and debating architecture patterns. The result? A codebase that, while technically correct, felt arbitrary and lacked immediate clarity. Onboarding even myself after a few wee…  ( 7 min )

This is one of the most important Kubernetes basics, used in real microservices deployments. You will learn: ✔ Create a ConfigMap Create app-config.yaml: apiVersion: v1 kind: ConfigMap metadata: name: demo-config data: APP_ENV: "development" APP_VERSION: "1.0.0" WELCOME_MESSAGE: "Hello from ConfigMap!" Apply it: kubectl apply -f app-config.yaml Check it: kubectl get configmaps demo-config -o yaml Create pod-configmap-demo.yaml: apiVersion: v1 kind: Pod metadata: name: configmap-demo-pod spec: containers: - name: demo-container image: busybox command: ["sh", "-c", "sleep 3600"] env: - name: ENVIRONMENT valueFrom: configMapKeyRef: name: demo-config key: APP_ENV - name: VERSION v…  ( 7 min )

Let’s skip the polite throat-clearing. Your “AI platform” is a vending machine that hands out root on layaway. Agents hoard long-lived API keys, plugins ship with mystery meat, and every “secure” gateway rubber-stamps bearer tokens like it’s still 2011. Then you’re shocked when a prompt tells your agent to exfiltrate S3. Adorable. You don’t need another dreamy “AI safety” framework. You need a bouncer with a working flashlight. Check IDs and the bag. That’s it. That’s the post. Tool creds living forever in agent memory, logs, and “debug mode.” Prompt injection turns “helpful assistant” into “unpaid red team.” Multi-agent graphs swapping capabilities like baseball cards. Revocation that’s a Slack message and a prayer. Transport TLS solves exactly none of that. It’s a pipe. Great pipe. Wrong…  ( 9 min )

-Check package.json, identify dependencies, scripts, and entry points -Review tsconfig.json: Learn about compiler settings, path aliases, -Understand folder structure: like src/ components/ utils/ hooks/ -Read test cases like tests/ or tests : these contain unit and -Trace the flow.Looks for index.ts file, they often serve as entry points. -Follow imports to understand how modules connect. -Explore interface and types which are often used. -Use UNKNOWN instead of any for safer type handling. -Run tests locally to observe how modules interact. -Use SOURCEGRAPH or CodeTour to visualize codebases. -After understanding , teach the codebase to someone. -Draw a sketch or diagram if possible.  ( 6 min )

Overview What is Synthetic Data? Why Use Synthetic Data? Translate a dataset from one language to another language can be a good choice Generating more time series data points following observed patterns Example Prompt Refer to FEATURES.md for the fields to include: date, open, high, low, close, adjusted close, and volume. Folder Structure synthetic-data/ Support a range of dataset sizes and feature counts scripts/generate_datasets.py Parameters Makefile targets FEATURES.md Example Synthetic Data Features Feature Name Description Data Type Example Values Date Date of the stock price record Date 2015-03-31 Open Opening price of the stock Float 0.555 High Highest price of the stock Float 0.595 Low Lowest price of the stock Float 0.53 Close Closing price of the stock Float 0.565 Adj Close Adjusted closing price of the stock Float 0.565 Volume Trading volume of the stock Integer 4816294 Sample data Date,Open,High,Low,Close,Adj Close,Volume 2015-03-31,0.555,0.595,0.53,0.565,0.565,4816294 2015-04-01,0.575,0.58,0.555,0.565,0.565,4376660 2015-04-02,0.56,0.565,0.535,0.555,0.555,2779640 Final Notes R is a strong alternative to Python for synthetic data generation Combine with LLMs to create more context-aware synthetic data is a promising direction, tailor your prompts faker can be replaced by using LLM API calls to generate more realistic and diverse synthetic data samples.  ( 9 min )

1. Create two EC2 by using User-Data-Amazon-Linux Script Launch Two EC2 with Two Availability Zone I will left information about vpc,subnet[public],security. Please configure with yours. Attach IAM Instance role by using CloudWatchAgentServerPolicy Add User Data and Click Launch Instance Wait until 2/2 checks passed Click Load Balancer Click Create load balancers Click Create of Application Load Balance Write Load balancer name Choose your vpc, select public subnet which route to IGW, security group Click Create target group Write Target group name and Click Next Choose both EC2 and Click Include as pending below Click Create Target Group Choose LabTG Click Create load balancer Reload these links in browser a few times Add /admin.php…  ( 7 min )

Check go.mod and go.sum. These files contain dependecies and module version Understand the folder structure. Understand common directories like Trace execution flow: start from main.go and then follow initialisatio Read tests like _test.go Use tools like sourcegraph to visualize dependencies.  ( 6 min )

Curious about how to give your clothing brand’s product images that professional, studio-quality look without the endless costs and headaches of traditional photoshoots? AI model photography services are changing how fashion brands present their products online. Disclosure: This article features AI-generated elements and may include companies I have connections to. I've spent more than 60 hours trying out the top AI model photography services for apparel brands, putting each one through real-world tests to see which platforms offer real value. My goal is to help you choose the right solution for your needs - no hype, just honest insights. After working in fashion tech and digital imaging for over five years, partnering with lots of brands big and small, I know what makes a photography tool…  ( 14 min )

Built for Google Play Compliance: Meeting the 14-Day Testing Requirement =============== As an Android developer, you're well aware of the challenges that come with publishing your app on the Google Play Store. With the recent policy change requiring all new personal developer accounts to complete 14 consecutive days of closed testing with at least 12 active testers, many developers are struggling to meet this requirement. Closed testing is a crucial step in ensuring that your app is stable and functional before releasing it to the public. However, manually managing tester recruitment, tracking daily engagement, and verifying compliance can be time-consuming and tedious. Moreover, it's easy to lose track of progress or fall short of the required 12 testers. App Testers Hub is specificall…  ( 8 min )

Emily King’s Tiny Desk Concert dazzles with her signature silky voice and a crack band that layers dreamy harmonies onto gut-wrenching break-up songs like “Georgia” and “Down.” Between tracks, her infectious excitement and playful banter—especially with longtime collaborator Jeremy Most—transform heartbreak into something like “getting hugged by a rose petal.” She admits many of her tunes, from the New Year’s empowerment anthem “This Year” to the celebratory “Special Occasion,” were written to boost her own mood when she’s down. With a concise set list (“Distance” through “Special Occasion”) and a stellar crew of musicians and producers, this Tiny Desk feels like the ultimate shared joyride. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Ephemeral containers let you attach a temporary debug container to a running Pod without restarting it. Create file nginx-ephemeral.yaml: apiVersion: v1 kind: Pod metadata: name: nginx-ephemeral labels: app: nginx-ephemeral spec: containers: - name: nginx image: nginx:latest ports: - containerPort: 80 Apply it: kubectl apply -f nginx-ephemeral.yaml kubectl get pods -o wide Expected: nginx-ephemeral 1/1 Running 0 10s Wait until ready (recommended): kubectl wait --for=condition=Ready pod/nginx-ephemeral --timeout=60s Use a debug image with complete tools (e.g., busybox, ubuntu, distroless, nicolaka/netshoot). Best option for debugging network and DNS: kubectl debug -it nginx-ephemeral --image=nicolaka/netshoot --target=nginx This creates a tem…  ( 7 min )

The Silent Killer of Your SaaS Growth It was 3:17 PM on a Tuesday when the first cancellation email hit. Then another. And another. By Friday, you'd lost 12 customers worth €24,000 in annual recurring revenue. The trigger? A competitor launched their long-awaited AI forecasting module - and your sales team didn't even know it existed until customers started asking for it. Three weeks later, your churn rate jumped 18%. Your engineering team is now scrambling to build a comparable feature while your support team fields angry calls about "falling behind." All because you missed one product update on a competitor's blog. Last month, I helped a B2B analytics SaaS company recover from nearly €60,000 in lost deals after they missed a competitor's pricing page redesign. The competitor had quiet…  ( 8 min )

Hello, Dev Community! I'm excited to finally pull back the curtain on my latest side project: Coz.jp, a new link shortening service. While "yet another link shortener" might sound simple, the goal here was to build something fast, reliable, and deeply integrated, all while using a modern and scalable tech stack. I want to share a little bit about what it does and the architecture I chose. Why I Built It As a developer, I've always needed a link shortener that gives me full control after the link is created. That's what Coz.jp is all about: fast creation, but also the ability to go back and fix errors by editing the target URL, or deleting the link entirely. It focuses on: Fast and Reliable URL Shortening: Speed is non-negotiable for link redirects. Complete Link Management: Easily fix mis…  ( 7 min )

4 ChatGPT Hacks that Cut My Workload in Half This video walks you through four killer techniques—Prompt Reversal, the 5-Minute Amplifier, the Red Team Technique, and Blueprint Scaffolding—that will slash your AI workflow time in half. Each hack shows you how to reverse-engineer great prompts, spin one piece of content into multiple formats, have ChatGPT rigorously critique its own work, and force it to lay out its reasoning step by step before execution. These methods are packed with real-world examples you can apply right away, no matter your role or industry. They’ll stop you from endlessly refining prompts and get you faster, more reliable results—every single time. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

TL;DR CinemaSins just unleashed “Everything Wrong With Sinners In 15 Minutes Or Less,” a tongue-in-cheek Halloween-themed roast of one of the year’s best genre flicks. They promise all the signature “sins,” plus links to their site, socials, Patreon and a tiny poll to get your feedback. Alongside the video promo they drop links to Discord, Reddit, TikTok and more—you’ll even find a shout-out to their writer squad (Jeremy, Chris, Aaron, Jonathan, Deneé, Ian and Daniel). Whether you’re here for movie roasting or community vibes, they’ve got you covered. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Why Chatbots Get Better When We Count Words, Not Just Rules Ever wondered why a chatbot sometimes sounds just like a friend? Scientists have discovered that the secret isn’t hidden grammar trees but simple word‑frequency patterns. Applying this idea to modern language models means we can build smarter, more natural‑talking AI by focusing on the everyday words people actually use. This breakthrough helps us design, test, and understand AI chatters in a way that feels more human and less mysterious. Read article comprehensive review in Paperium.net: Language Models Model Language 🤖 This analysis and review was primarily generated and structured by an AI . The content is provided for informational and quick-review purposes.  ( 22 min )

TL;DR CinemaSins just dropped “Everything Wrong With Thunderbolts* (The New Avengers) In 20 Minutes Or Less,” where they gleefully rip into every plot hole, cringe-worthy moment and cheeky Easter egg in the latest Marvel mash-up. Amid the snark, they even wonder if the movie might secretly be pretty great—spoiler: they’ll let you decide. On the side, they’re shilling all their usual stuff: polls, Patreon, Twitch, Reddit, Discord and a whole squad of social-media handles, plus writer shout-outs to Jeremy, Chris, Aaron, Jonathan, Deneé, Ian and Daniel. If you love nitpicking blockbuster flicks, this is your vibe. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Predators – Caravan of Garbage Predators (2010) takes the franchise back to its roots after the 1990 sequel and two Alien vs. Predator flops, dropping a rag-tag band of lunatics into a muddy jungle showdown. Mr Sunday Movies applauds its fresh twists and tight, back-to-basics action—so good that fans still lament the lack of a direct follow-up. This Caravan of Garbage review is brought to you by Mr Sunday Movies. For bonus content, podcasts, merch and more, check out bigsandwich.co and follow their socials! Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

I built PolicyPal for the Google Cloud Run Hackathon, an AI-powered assistant that helps users understand their health insurance coverage using Google Cloud Run, Gemini (AI Studio), Cloud Functions, and Google Sheets. In this post, I’ll briefly explain how I built it, what I learned, and how Cloud Run helped me deploy a fully serverless, scalable solution. AI Layer: Google Gemini (via AI Studio) I used Google AI Studio to vibe-code and design the conversational logic, defining custom schemas, checkCoverage and listCoveredProcedures, that guide Gemini to access real structured data. These schemas help Gemini know where to fetch data and how to format its responses. Essentially, Gemini calls my backend through these definitions to get real plan data. Backend: Python on Google Cloud Functions…  ( 8 min )

1. Create an S3 bucket Click Create bucket Set Bucket Name as Unique Name Click Create bucket Click Upload Click Add files Choose Your File and Click Upload Click Test.txt Check at Storage class Click Your bucket name Click Managment and Create lifecycle rule Write lifecycyle-rule at Lifecycle rule name Select Apply to all objects in the bucket Click I acknowledge that this rule will apply to all objects in the bucket. Select Lifecycle rule actionslike this and choose Choose storage class transitionsand write Days after object creation at Transition current versions of objects between storage classes Write days at Days after object creation and Permanently delete noncurrent versions of objects Click Create rule That it is. Congratulations, you have completed Lab-How To Create an Object Lifecycle Policy for Amazon S3 Repository: AWS Learning Labs  ( 6 min )

Introduction Large Language Models (LLMs) have transformed how we interact with AI, but running them efficiently remains a significant challenge. The computational demands of generating resp This article explores three critical technologies that enable efficient LLM inference: C++ for high-performance execution, ONNX for model portability, and llama.cpp for optimized local deployment. Together, these tools help developers bridge the gap between powerful AI models and practical, real-world applications. When deploying LLMs, inference performance directly impacts: User Experience: Lower latency means faster responses Cost Efficiency: Better performance = fewer computational resources Accessibility: Efficient inference enables edge and mobile deployment Scalability: Optimized models can se…  ( 8 min )

AI coding assistants are everywhere—but trust is not. We’ve all seen it: Invented npm/PyPI packages that don’t exist. Confident code that ignores your architecture. “TODO: implement later” mocks accidentally shipped to production. Long context windows wasted because the model never actually reads your repo. SCAR fixes this. SCAR (Specification for Code Assistant Reliability) is a high-trust operating system for AI coding assistants. It’s an open specification powered by a single prompt.yaml that turns generic models into governed, senior-level engineering copilots. Get SCAR: https://github.com/redmoon0x/scar-spec.git What SCAR Solves Package hallucination Enforces strict package verification rules. No suggesting libraries that don’t exist. Encourages verified, documented, actively maintain…  ( 7 min )

In the rapidly evolving landscape of AI agents and autonomous systems, enabling seamless communication between different agents has become crucial. The Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocol provides a standardized way for AI agents to interact, exchange messages, and coordinate tasks. In this article, I'll walk you through our implementation of an A2A gateway built on AWS serverless architecture. Agent-to-Agent communication is a protocol that allows different AI agents to interact with each other in a standardized way. Think of it as an API contract specifically designed for agent interactions. Rather than having agents communicate through proprietary interfaces, A2A provides: Standardized message formats using JSON-RPC Task lifecycle management (submit, track, cancel) Context preservation across…  ( 10 min )

This one will show how multiple containers in a single Pod can share data and work together, just like microservices collaborating closely inside one unit. Create a multi-container Pod with: One main container running NGINX One sidecar container that tails NGINX access logs and prints them to its own stdout (mimicking a log forwarder) This demonstrates the Sidecar Pattern — where an auxiliary container extends or supports the main container’s function. Create a file named nginx-sidecar-pod.yaml apiVersion: v1 kind: Pod metadata: name: nginx-sidecar-pod labels: app: nginx-sidecar spec: containers: - name: nginx image: nginx:latest ports: - containerPort: 80 volumeMounts: - name: shared-logs mountPath: /var/log/nginx - name: sidecar-logger im…  ( 7 min )

Google released Veo 3.1 with new features and one of them is using the first and last frames to interpolate a video. When leveraging the image generation of Gemini 2.5 Flash Image model (a.k.a Nano Banana), Veo 3.1 model can use the first and last images to generate a short video. This interpolation feature is specifically enabled by the lastFrame parameter, a capability exclusive to the latest Veo 3.1 model. This blog post describes how I used Gemini 2.5 Flash Image model to implement a visual story feature to create a sequence of images. Then, Veo 3.1 uses the first and last images to create the dynamic content of a video. This feature exists in Veo 3.1 only, so the application should not call it when Veo 2 or Veo 3 is used. I added a new environment variable, IS_VEO31_USED, to indicat…  ( 9 min )

Introduction In modern software development, API testing frameworks play a crucial role in ensuring that communication between services is reliable, consistent, and secure. APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) are the backbone of microservices architectures, and their stability directly affects the performance of entire systems. Frameworks such as RestAssured, Postman/Newman, and Karate allow developers to automate API testing and integrate it into Continuous Integration (CI/CD) pipelines. This article focuses on the application of RestAssured in Java for efficient API testing automation. Why Use an API Testing Framework? Manually testing APIs through tools like Postman is suitable for initial exploration, but for large-scale systems, automated frameworks provide significant advan…  ( 7 min )

Effortless observability for your Go applications — without the boilerplate. As Go developers, we all want observability — to know how our APIs perform, how many requests we handle, and how our systems behave in production. Prometheus is fantastic for that — but setting up metrics in Go can quickly turn verbose: counter := prometheus.NewCounterVec( prometheus.CounterOpts{Name: "http_requests_total", Help: "Total HTTP requests"}, []string{"path", "method", "status"}, ) prometheus.MustRegister(counter) And soon your code fills with boilerplate. That’s why I built prometric-go — a lightweight, idiomatic helper library that makes exposing Prometheus metrics in Go as simple as possible. prometric-go is a minimal Go library that wraps Prometheus client_golang and provides ready-to-use m…  ( 8 min )

GitHub - sumeetghimire/Laravel-AI-Orchestrator Contribute to sumeetghimire/Laravel-AI-Orchestrator development by creating an account on GitHub. github.com  ( 6 min )

Delegar con Seguridad: El flujo inicial en AWS IAM En este diagrama no es solo un conjunto de pasos técnicos. Es el reflejo de cómo se empieza bien en AWS: con intención, con seguridad, y cumplir las buenas prácticas. Todo parte del usuario Root, el acceso Maestro que no se debe usar para el día a día. Lo protegemos con MFA porque sabemos que es el punto más sensible. delegamos. Creamos un usuario llamado IAM-Administrator, que será quien realmente gestione el entorno. Separado del Root, con privilegios bien definidos, y también con **MFA **activado. Porque incluso los usuarios con más acceso deben operar bajo doble verificación. Este diagrama representa una decisión consciente: No es solo conectar, sino delegar con confianza, proteger nuestra cuenta y auditar con claridad. Así empieza u…  ( 8 min )

Taking on a new challenge: solving GeeksforGeeks POTD daily and sharing my solutions! 💻🔥 Problem: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/problems/chocolate-pickup-ii/1 Chocolate Pickup II Difficulty: Hard Accuracy: 71.31% You are given a square matrix mat[][] of size n × n, where each cell represents either a blocked cell or a cell containing some chocolates. If mat[i][j] equals -1, then the cell is blocked and cannot be visited. Otherwise, mat[i][j] represents the number of chocolates present in that cell. One of the optimal paths is to move from (0,0) -> (1,0) -> (2,0) -> (2,1) -> (2,2) while going forward, and then from (2,2) -> (2,1) -> (1,1) -> (0,1) -> (0,0) while coming back. The total number of chocolates collected is 7. One of the optimal paths is to move from (0,0) -> (1,0) -> (2,0) -> (2,1) -> (2,2) while going forward, and then from (2,2) -> (1,2) -> (1,1) -> (0,1) -> (0,0) while coming back. The total number of chocolates collected is 7. It is impossible to reach the bottom-right cell (2,2) from (0,0) because every route is blocked. Since the destination cannot be reached, the total chocolates collected is 0. Solution: class Solution: @lru_cache(None) def solve(r1, c1, r2, c2): if r1 >= n or c1 >= n or r2 >= n or c2 >= n: return float('-inf') if mat[r1][c1] == -1 or mat[r2][c2] == -1: return float('-inf') if r1 == c1 == n - 1: return mat[r1][c1] if r2 == c2 == n - 1: return mat[r2][c2] res = 0 if r1 == r2 and c1 == c2: res += mat[r1][c1] else: res += mat[r1][c1] + mat[r2][c2] next_val = max( solve(r1 + 1, c1, r2 + 1, c2), solve(r1, c1 + 1, r2, c2 + 1), solve(r1 + 1, c1, r2, c2 + 1), solve(r1, c1 + 1, r2 + 1, c2) ) res += next_val return res ans = solve(0, 0, 0, 0) return max(0, ans)  ( 7 min )

4 ChatGPT Hacks That Cut Your Workload in Half Jeff Su walks you through four game-changing techniques—Prompt Reversal, 5-Minute Amplifier, Red Teaming and Blueprint Scaffolding—that can slice your AI workflow time in half. Each trick comes with real-world examples you can copy and paste, so you spend less time tweaking prompts and more time getting stellar results across any role or industry. Whether you want to reverse-engineer your best prompts, turn one idea into blog posts, social media blurbs or emails, have AI critique its own work, or force it to outline its logic before diving in, these hacks will level up your productivity instantly. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Everything Wrong With Sinners In 15 Minutes Or Less takes a playful stab at what they call one of the best genre films ever, roasting every tiny plot hole and quirk in true CinemaSins fashion. Despite the jokes, they admit the movie “rules” and promise a fun, Halloween-ready rundown in just quarter of an hour. Alongside the video they plug their website, socials (YouTube channels @TVSins, @commercialsins, @cinemasinspodcastnetwork), a fan poll, Patreon, Discord, Reddit, TikTok and Instagram. Writers Jeremy, Chris, Aaron, Jonathan, Deneé, Ian and Daniel all get shout-outs—plus a link to Jeremy’s book for the extra sin-ning fix. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Everything Wrong With Thunderbolts* (The New Avengers) In 20 Minutes Or Less takes CinemaSins’ classic “sin-count” approach to Marvel’s latest team-up flick, ripping on plot holes, character quirks and pacing—yet still half-wonders if the movie’s secretly a blast. Along the way you’ll get plugs for their main site and YouTube channels (TVSins, CommercialSins, the podcast network), plus invites to join their Discord, Reddit, TikTok and Instagram, fill out a poll or back them on Patreon. The credits shout out writers Jeremy, Chris, Aaron, Jonathan, Deneé, Ian and Daniel with all their socials for extra movie-nerd banter. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Predators – Caravan of Garbage Review Mr Sunday Movies celebrates 2010’s Predators for ditching the Alien VS Predator fluff and going back to basics: a rag-tag bunch of lunatics dropped into a jungle for a gritty, muddy showdown with new twists that actually elevate the franchise. It’s a fan-fave sequel that finally felt fresh—so of course we never got a follow-up! This review is part of the “Caravan of Garbage” series, where James and Maso dig into cult classics while plugging all their bonus podcasts, early-access vids, merch and more. If you’re hungry for detailed banter (and merch links), you know where to look. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Don’t Build Your Castle on Rented Land — A Practical Guide to Mirrors, Backups, and a One-Hour DR Playbook Imagine waking up and your primary platform is gone for a week. If your startup’s lifeline is its code and cloud, depending on any single vendor is like building a castle on rented land: great location, zero ownership. This guide shows how to Modern software is built on incredible infrastructure — but convenience hides dependency. Big clouds do fail. In October 2025, an Amazon DNS outage broke vast swathes of the internet, taking down banking, ecommerce, and communication platforms. TechCrunch called it “a reminder that even the cloud has a single point of failure.” 👉 TechCrunch: Amazon DNS outage breaks much of the internet (Oct 21 2025) Catastrophic deletions happen. In 2025…  ( 9 min )

You've been told the three pillars of observability, logs, metrics, and traces, are the answer. But stitching together separate, best-of-breed tools has likely left you with data silos, slow queries, and a constant battle against rising infrastructure costs. During an incident, you're not debugging. Instead, you're manually correlating timestamps across three different UIs. This isn't a sustainable strategy. The most effective and cost-efficient observability solution for 2025 isn't a collection of disparate tools. It's a unified, open-source stack built on a powerful data engine. This guide provides the architectural blueprints to help you understand why this shift is happening and how to build your stack the right way. The "three pillars" (logs, metrics, traces) are just data types, not …  ( 18 min )

With the rise of mobile gaming, making sure that your HTML5 adventure games are optimized for mobile and cross-device play is crucial. Adventure games, with their intricate puzzles, deep narratives, and interactive gameplay, require seamless performance across a range of devices—from desktops to tablets to smartphones. In this article, we’ll cover key strategies for ensuring that your HTML5 adventure game performs optimally on mobile devices and works smoothly across various screen sizes. This includes tips for improving load times, responsive design, touch controls, and battery efficiency. Responsive design is essential when creating games that can be played across different devices. The game interface should adjust to fit any screen size, ensuring that gameplay remains intuitive and acce…  ( 8 min )

Adventure games have been a staple of interactive storytelling for decades. Whether you’re guiding a hero through ancient ruins or solving intricate puzzles, the adventure genre provides endless creative possibilities. Thanks to HTML5, building an adventure game has never been easier, and you can create fully playable, interactive experiences right in your browser. In this tutorial, we’ll guide you step-by-step through the process of creating a simple HTML5 adventure game using JavaScript and the Canvas API. By the end, you’ll have the foundation for a browser-based adventure game that you can expand upon and share with others. Start by creating a basic HTML file with a element to draw your game world. This is where all the magic happens. …  ( 8 min )

2169. Count Operations to Obtain Zero Difficulty: Easy Topics: Math, Simulation, Weekly Contest 280 You are given two non-negative integers num1 and num2. In one operation, if num1 >= num2, you must subtract num2 from num1, otherwise subtract num1 from num2. For example, if num1 = 5 and num2 = 4, subtract num2 from num1, thus obtaining num1 = 1 and num2 = 4. However, if num1 = 4 and num2 = 5, after one operation, num1 = 4 and num2 = 1. Return the number of operations required to make either num1 = 0 or num2 = 0. Example 1: Input: num1 = 2, num2 = 3 Output: 3 Explanation: Operation 1: num1 = 2, num2 = 3. Since num1 num2, we subtract num2 from num1. Operation 3: num1 = 1, nu…  ( 37 min )

Modern LCDs are used far beyond consumer electronics. They appear in factory automation panels, medical equipment, outdoor kiosks, and automotive dashboards — environments where light, dust, oils, scratches, and UV exposure can quickly degrade visibility and usability. To keep displays readable and durable, engineers rely on surface treatments. These thin but essential layers determine how the screen behaves in real-world conditions. This guide explains the four most important LCD surface treatments used today: Anti-Glare (AG), Anti-Reflective (AR), Anti-Fingerprint (AF), and Anti-UV protection. Even the best LCD panel can suffer if the outermost surface doesn’t handle ambient conditions properly. Surface treatments help: Improve readability under strong lighting Increase contrast and clar…  ( 8 min )

Smart AI That Knows When to Think, Use Tools, or Just Answer Ever wondered why some chatbots over‑think while others keep asking for extra help? Scientists have created a new kind of AI that can decide on the spot whether to solve a problem by itself, call a handy tool, or simply give a quick answer. This breakthrough means smarter virtual helpers that feel more natural and affordable, whether they’re helping you plan a trip, solve a math puzzle, or find a fact online. It’s a glimpse of a future where AI works like a versatile teammate, always picking the simplest path to get you the answer you need. Read article comprehensive review in Paperium.net: A^2FM: An Adaptive Agent Foundation Model for Tool-Aware Hybrid Reasoning 🤖 This analysis and review was primarily generated and structured by an AI . The content is provided for informational and quick-review purposes.  ( 22 min )

Advertising is Evolving: Here’s Where It’s Heading in the AI Era The world of advertising is shifting beneath our feet. As AI applications proliferate, developers face a growing challenge: How can you monetize your innovative ideas without compromising user experience? Enter MonetZly — the first dual-earning platform designed specifically for AI conversations. It’s not just about making money; it’s about creating a sustainable ecosystem where developers, advertisers, and users all thrive. Imagine a platform where your AI app not only serves users with intelligent interactions but also generates revenue seamlessly. With MonetZly, you can achieve that through conversation-native advertising. This means ads are integrated into the dialogue naturally, making them less intrusive and more rele…  ( 7 min )

How a novel data format is saving developers 30-60% on LLM token costs If you've been working with Large Language Models, you've probably noticed something: feeding data to AI isn't free. Every JSON object you pass through an API costs tokens, and those tokens add up fast. Enter TOON (Token-Oriented Object Notation), a new serialization format designed specifically to solve this problem. Let's start with a real example. Imagine you're building an app that sends employee data to an LLM for analysis: { "users": [ { "id": 1, "name": "Alice", "role": "admin", "salary": 75000 }, { "id": 2, "name": "Bob", "role": "user", "salary": 65000 }, { "id": 3, "name": "Charlie", "role": "user", "salary": 70000 } ] } This JSON snippet consumes 257 tokens. Now look at the same data in TOON:…  ( 9 min )

I began my open-source journey through WeMakeDevs’ Open Source Fest, where I contributed to https://github.com/kestra-io/plugin-kestra My contribution focused on detecting stuck schedules, identifying situations where workflows didn’t run on time. I implemented the detection logic and added unit tests to verify it. https://github.com/kestra-io/plugin-kestra/pull/63 During testing, I faced a permission limitation while pulling the Kestra EE image, which prevented me from running the test locally. When I reached out, Loïc Mathieu from the Kestra team kindly clarified that this was a known restriction for external contributors. Despite that, he and the team provided helpful feedback and support throughout the process. This experience taught me that open source is not just about writing code — it’s about collaboration, patience, and continuous learning. Grateful to WeMakeDevs for encouraging contributors like me and to the Kestra team for their guidance and kindness!  ( 6 min )

When preparing for advanced JavaScript interviews, understanding how JavaScript engines like V8 (used in Chrome and Node.js) and SpiderMonkey (used in Firefox) work internally can set you apart from average developers. These engines do more than just interpret JavaScript — they compile, optimize, and execute your code using complex architectures and Just-In-Time (JIT) compilation techniques. Let’s dive into 10 real interview questions that test your understanding of JavaScript internals, performance, and optimization strategies. Focus Area: Execution model, JIT compilation Standard Answer: interpreter executes code line-by-line, translating JavaScript directly into bytecode and running it immediately. This is fast for startup but slow for long-running applications. A JIT (Just-In-Time) com…  ( 10 min )

Meet MorphoBench: The Smart Test That Grows With AI Ever wondered how we can tell if a super‑smart computer really “thinks” like a human? Scientists have created MorphoBench, a new kind of quiz that changes its difficulty as AI gets smarter. adaptive benchmark means researchers can spot hidden gaps and push AI to reason more clearly, just like a coach fine‑tuning an athlete’s training. Why it matters is simple: smarter, more reliable AI can assist us in everything from medical advice to climate forecasts. Read article comprehensive review in Paperium.net: MorphoBench: A Benchmark with Difficulty Adaptive to Model Reasoning 🤖 This analysis and review was primarily generated and structured by an AI . The content is provided for informational and quick-review purposes.  ( 21 min )

Hey everyone 👋 I’m excited to share that the new homepage for YINI config format↗ is now live! YINI is a modern, structured, human-friendly configuration format that tries to bring together the simplicity of INI with the flexibility of YAML. YINI was designed to make configuration files both readable for humans and consistent for machines. It takes inspiration from INI, YAML, and JSON — but simplifies the rules while still supporting modern features like: Nested sections using clear markers (^, ^^, etc.) Arrays [1, 2, 3] and objects { key: "value" } Inline and full-line comments Strict and lenient parsing modes ^ App name = "Demo" features = ["search", "dark-mode"] ^^ Server host = "0.0.0.0" port = 8080 The new site — yini-lang.org ↗ — brings everything together: 🧭 Get Started guide ⚙️ Quick Tutorial with examples 📘 Full Specification 💡 FAQ and explanations It’s built with Astro + Tailwind, and designed to be fast, clean, and accessible — the perfect home for YINI as the ecosystem continues to grow. yini-parser-typescript — the official TypeScript parser library yini-cli — a simple CLI for parsing, validating, and converting YINI files Specification — now at v1.0 RC stage, aligning parser behavior with the spec Both projects are open-source on GitHub under @YINI-lang ↗ This is still early days for YINI, and community feedback is incredibly valuable. Visit the homepage → yini-lang.org Check the parser on GitHub → yini-parser-typescript Thanks for reading — and for helping shape a cleaner, more predictable future for config files 💡 — Marko Seppänen  ( 7 min )

If you're setting up Samba shares, you’re probably aiming for something deceptively simple—“I just want to share a folder.” But like many IT pros (myself included), you’ve likely hit a moment where things almost worked… until they didn’t. That’s why this guide exists—to help you skip the guesswork, avoid trial-by-fire debugging, and set up share sections that are secure, reliable, and customized for your environment. In the last part of this series, you hardened the [global] section, laying the groundwork for a trustworthy Samba server. Now it’s time to take full control of the [share name] sections—where the real power lies. These define how each folder behaves on your network, including access control, permissions, and visibility. Step 1: Define the Shares You Need Step 2: Control Who Ca…  ( 8 min )

The JavaScript Event Loop is one of the most misunderstood yet fundamental concepts that every developer must master. It dictates how asynchronous code is executed, how promises are resolved, and how tasks are prioritized. In this article, we’ll go through 10 real interview questions with professional explanations, examples, and follow-up questions designed to test your true understanding. Key Concept: Core mechanism of asynchronous execution Model Answer: Event Loop is a mechanism that allows JavaScript to perform non-blocking operations despite being single-threaded. It continuously checks the call stack and the task queues (macrotasks and microtasks). When the call stack is empty, the event loop takes tasks from the queue and pushes them onto the stack for execution. A simplified pseudo…  ( 10 min )

Sick of endless ChatGPT prompt tweaks? Jeff Su shares four killer hacks—Prompt Reversal, 5-Minute Amplifier, Red Team Technique, and Blueprint Scaffolding—that cut your AI workflow in half. He walks you through reverse-engineering your best prompts, spinning one idea into multiple formats, having the AI critique its own output, and forcing it to map out its reasoning before diving in—complete with real-world examples and handy timestamps. Hungry for more? Snag his free ChatGPT ebook, peek at the written blog post, or join his AI and Workspace Academies. He’s also got a Notion Command Center template, a newsletter, and social channels (Instagram, LinkedIn) packed with productivity gold. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Closures are one of the most frequently tested topics in JavaScript interviews because they reveal how deeply you understand scope, memory management, and data privacy. In this article, we’ll go through 10 well-structured interview questions, each designed to test your practical understanding of closures — from simple function scope to encapsulating private data. Focus: Understanding closure fundamentals Model Answer: a function that remembers and accesses variables from its outer scope, even after that outer function has finished executing. Closures are created whenever a function is defined inside another function and the inner function references variables from the outer one. function outer() { let count = 0; return function inner() { count++; console.log(count); }; } con…  ( 10 min )

This is a submission for the Agentic Postgres Challenge with Tiger Data 🧠 What I Built MindsEye Agentic is an experimental, time-aware “cognitive event tracker” built on Agentic Postgres (Tiger Cloud). The concept stems from my broader MindsEye research at SageWorks AI, exploring how AI systems can “see” timelines — not just data. Recording time-labeled events into a hypertable Aggregating those events via time_bucket() Searching them semantically using PostgreSQL’s pg_trgm similarity Laying the foundation for future GPT-powered “Agents of Cognition” 🚀 Demo & Repository Although we couldn’t deploy the live API due to budget limits on hosting, the full system is ready and connected to Tiger Cloud — schema, routes, and data flow are complete. GitHub Repository: PEACEBINFLOW/mindseye-agenti…  ( 7 min )

Is It Worth Upgrading to React 19? React, a cornerstone library for building user interfaces, continues to evolve, aiming for greater simplicity and efficiency. With the release of React 19, discussions are swirling about whether it’s worth upgrading from React 18. This blog post will delve into the exciting updates in React 19, provide real-world examples showcasing the benefits of upgrading, discuss best practices for migrating, and outline potential pitfalls to watch for during the upgrade process. React 19 isn’t just an incremental update; it signifies a shift towards refining the developer experience by reducing complexities, allowing developers to focus on creating great applications rather than managing boilerplate code. One of the most notable changes in React 19 is the introduct…  ( 10 min )

The Prompt Layer Most Beginners Miss Jaideep Parashar ・ Nov 9 #ai #promptengineering #discuss #learning  ( 6 min )

Everyone is obsessed with “prompt tricks.” They collect templates. But after all that, their results still feel… average. Why? Most people are missing the most important layer of prompting, and it has nothing to do with AI. It has everything to do with you. The quality of your prompts can never exceed the quality of your thinking. This is the layer beginners never talk about, never learn, and never train, and it’s the reason they stay stuck in prompt mediocrity. Let’s fix that. The Invisible Layer: Your Mental Model Before You Prompt Most people jump straight into typing. They think before they prompt. Because prompting is not typing, prompting is translating thought into structured intelligence. Here’s the truth: If your thoughts are unclear, your prompt will be unclear. If your prompt is…  ( 9 min )

Stop "chatting" with your LLM. To achieve predictable results from a Large Language Model, it's necessary to stop communicating in prose and start providing executable specifications. This concept is the foundation of the 2WHAV framework, a structured way to transform a requirement into a "blueprint" that an LLM can execute, not just interpret. But even the most detailed blueprint cannot capture the complexity of the real world on the first try. The secret to moving from a "good attempt" to "robust code" is not a longer prompt. It's an engineered feedback process. Test the Process Yourself Before analyzing the theory, here is a practical experiment to run on an advanced LLM. Copy and paste the following commands step-by-step. Step 1: Load the framework context Ask the LLM (tested on G…  ( 9 min )

GitHub Enhances Open Source Security with Immutable Releases GitHub has officially launched immutable releases, a pivotal feature designed to bolster supply chain security within the open-source community. This advancement ensures that once a release is published, its associated assets and tags are permanently protected from any unauthorized modifications or tampering. Key Benefits: Enhanced Trust: Users can be confident that the software they download and integrate is exactly as intended by the developers. Integrity Preservation: Prevents malicious actors from injecting vulnerabilities into software after its release. Supply Chain Robustness: Contributes to a more secure and reliable software development lifecycle for all. This move by GitHub signifies a strong commitment to developer security and the overall health of the open-source ecosystem. It's a crucial step in building more resilient and trustworthy software. Stelixx #StelixxInsights #IdeaToImpact #AI #BuilderCommunity #OpenSourceSecurity #GitHub #DevSecOps  ( 6 min )

TelUI TelUI is a Electron-based UI framework that packages a handful of reusable front-end primitives—color utilities, typography helpers, and basic structural styles—so you can make simple desktop UI ideas with minimal setup. Bundled Electron runner (npm start) that serves index.html for instant desktop previews. Tokenized styling layers: color.css, font.css, header.css, and align.css keep presentation rules isolated and easy to remix. Micro-interaction helpers in animation.css (e.g., .hover-fade, light) for subtle hover states or accent passes. Google Fonts integration (Funnel Display) plus opt-in utility classes like .arial. Drop-in icon assets under icons/ to help illustrate loading and status states. npm init telui npm run start The app launches an 800×600 Electron window that load…  ( 7 min )

I build my first small project website. it has html and css no javascript in it yet. Its about 10 best foods and i want you to test it out and get some feedback on it. Here: https://didzispro.github.io/top10-foods/  ( 6 min )

Unlocking Cellular Secrets: Precision Alignment for Multi-Stain Bioimages \Imagine trying to assemble a jigsaw puzzle where the pieces are distorted and slightly different sizes. That's the challenge researchers face when analyzing multi-stained tissue slides. Misaligned images can obscure critical details and lead to incorrect conclusions. Until now, achieving accurate, cell-level alignment across different staining modalities has been a significant bottleneck in biomedical research. The core concept involves a multi-stage alignment process. First, a broad overview is established by recognizing major tissue structures, effectively creating a rough draft. This initial alignment is then refined at the cellular level, ensuring that individual cells and their features are precisely matched…  ( 7 min )

How We Built Ad Injection That Users Actually Appreciate In the rapidly evolving world of AI applications, developers face a daunting challenge: monetization. With the explosion of AI apps, many lack sustainable revenue models that don't disrupt user experiences. Enter Monetzly—the first dual-earning platform in the AI space that empowers developers to monetize their apps while seamlessly integrating conversation-native advertising. Imagine this: you’re using a cutting-edge AI application when suddenly, an irrelevant ad pops up, breaking your flow and diminishing your experience. We knew this couldn't be the standard. That's why we engineered a solution that not only allows developers to earn from their work but also provides value to users through contextually relevant advertisements. D…  ( 7 min )

Introduction Learn how to read attributes from a project file using a class project that works with any .NET Core project without passing the project location or project name. Dynamic copyright in _Layout page Information in an about page In the page below "Project Details" and footer are read from the project file. In _Layout.cshtml Footer Privacy In the about page (ProjectDetails) backend, read information. using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.RazorPages; using CommonLibrary.Models; using static CommonLibrary.ProjectInformation; namespace ProjectPropertiesSampleApp.Pages; publ…  ( 10 min )

Introduction If you've worked with async/await in JavaScript or TypeScript, you might have encountered a common question: Why can you return a plain value from an async function even though the return type is Promise? This is a great question that trips up many developers! Let me explain how async functions automatically handle return values. Why can you write this: const syncToServer = async (): Promise => { if (itemsToSync.length === 0) { return { success: true }; // ← Just a plain object, not a Promise! } // ... } Instead of this: const syncToServer = async (): Promise => { if (itemsToSync.length === 0) { return Promise.resolve({ success: true }); // ← Wrapped in Promise } // ... } async Functio…  ( 8 min )

Hey React developers! 👋 Are you looking for a modern, actively maintained component library for Bulma CSS? Let me introduce you to bestax-bulma (pronounced "bee-stacks"), a TypeScript-first React component library that brings the full power of Bulma v1 to your React applications. Opensource! Free as in beer🍺 Great question! While there are other Bulma React libraries out there, many haven't been updated for Bulma v1 or are no longer actively maintained. bestax-bulma fills this gap with: 🎯 Full Bulma v1 Support: Built specifically for the latest Bulma version 📊 99% Test Coverage: Every component thoroughly tested with React Testing Library 🔷 TypeScript-First: Complete type safety with comprehensive TypeScript definitions 🚀 Modern Build: Tree-shakeable ESM and CJS builds for optimal …  ( 8 min )

reset the project I tried to set AWS Amplify Gen2 on existing project with pnpm, but the error sometimes occured in the process and finally decided to reset the project. I gonna start with new project set up with npm. 1.Recreate npm Project / Project Setup npx create-next-app@latest 2.Install Amplify Backend and Frontend SDKs in the Next.js Project Root Directory npm install @aws-amplify/backend @aws-amplify/data-schema aws-amplify 3.Create Directories and Files (The commands below do not run the content. Create the folders and files manually as follows.) mkdir amplify mkdir amplify/data touch amplify/backend.ts touch amplify/data/resource.ts 4.Open the created amplify/backend.ts file and add the following content: // amplify/backend.ts import { defineBackend } from '@aws-amplify/backend…  ( 6 min )

TelUI TelUI is a Electron-based UI framework that packages a handful of reusable front-end primitives—color utilities, typography helpers, and basic structural styles—so you can prototype simple desktop UI ideas with minimal setup. Bundled Electron runner (npm start) that serves index.html for instant desktop previews. Tokenized styling layers: color.css, font.css, header.css, and align.css keep presentation rules isolated and easy to remix. Micro-interaction helpers in animation.css (e.g., .hover-fade, light) for subtle hover states or accent passes. Google Fonts integration (Funnel Display) plus opt-in utility classes like .arial. Drop-in icon assets under icons/ to help illustrate loading and status states. npm install npm run start The app launches an 800×600 Electron window that lo…  ( 7 min )

In the fast-paced world of front-end development, staying ahead of the curve with the latest tools is essential to creating stunning, user-friendly interfaces. Whether you’re a beginner or a seasoned pro, there’s always something new to explore in the ever-evolving landscape of web design and development. If you want to supercharge your UI/UX game, this blog will introduce you to 20 essential tools every front-end developer should know. From powerful frameworks like React to visual design tools like Figma, we’ll cover everything you need to build beautiful, responsive, and efficient websites. So, grab your coffee (or energy drink, no judgment here), and let’s dive in! React – The Powerhouse of Front-End Frameworks React is a must-know for any front-end developer. It’s the go-to JavaScrip…  ( 11 min )

Title: Indiana's Miraculous TD Catch: A Thrilling Comeback to Stay Undefeated Description: The No. 2 Indiana Hoosiers faced a daunting 13-point deficit in the second half against Penn State, but they refused to give up. With only minutes remaining on the clock, Indiana pulled off a miraculous touchdown catch that left Penn State stunned and secured their victory with a final score of 24-20. The comeback was a result of a combination of factors, including a strong defensive effort and a determined offensive strategy. Indiana's defense held Penn State at bay, allowing the offense to make slow but steady progress towards the end zone. As the clock ticked down, Indiana's offense became more aggressive, with quarterback Michael Penix Jr. leading the charge. He made several key passes that dis…  ( 7 min )

Welcome to The State of AI, a new collaboration between the Financial Times and MIT Technology Review. Every Monday for the next six weeks, writers from both publications will debate one aspect of the generative AI revolution reshaping global power. This week, Casey Crownhart, senior reporter for energy at MIT Technology Review and Pilita Clark, FT’s…  ( 24 min )

Bitcoin has rebounded above $103,000, lifting altcoins.  ( 32 min )

The rally comes after a broader weekly slump, with the CoinDesk 20 (CD20) index recovering from a near 15% drawdown over the week.  ( 29 min )

Despite record levels of institutional investment, most Wall Street firms are still trading off-chain, says Annabelle Huang, co-founder and chief executive officer of Altius Labs.  ( 33 min )

The CFTC's interim boss, Caroline Pham, is said to be personally guiding exchanges on launching compliant products as she also overhauls the agency.  ( 41 min )

The alleged Ponzi scheme attracted over 3,000 victims by offering guaranteed returns on contracts tied to various assets.  ( 30 min )

As crypto trading volumes collapse in South Korea, retail investors are flocking to the stock market, fueling a state-backed AI-driven rally that’s replaced altcoin mania with semiconductor fever.  ( 34 min )

Works Minister Datuk Seri Alexander Nanta Linggi announced that the open payment toll collection system utilising Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) technology has now entered the Request for Proposal (RFP) stage. He made the statement during his visit to the slope repair project on the FT006 route, Section 40.84 of Jalan Balik Pulau–Teluk Bahang, on […] The post Malaysia Advances Towards Barrier-Free Toll System With ANPR Technology appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 34 min )

Leica has expanded its Reporter design series with the introduction of the new SL3 Reporter, a tougher variant of its flagship SL3 mirrorless camera. Like other models in the series, it features the distinctive dark green finish and improved durability aimed at professionals working in demanding environments. This new edition features a scratch-resistant coating and […] The post Leica SL3 Reporter Launches In Malaysia; Priced At RM38,500 appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 35 min )

Bargain hunters, we are finally approaching the biggest sale date of the year. As usual, we’ll be taking a quick look at brands that announced their discounts early, and present you with a slightly more curated list. But with this being the 11.11 sale, expect there to be multiple lists for different categories. In this […] The post Here Are Some Of The Smartphone Deals For 11.11 2025 appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 35 min )

It is undeniable that the iPhone Air has left quite the impression when it made its debut in September. Following its launch, there have been reports of Apple slashing production of the device, suggesting that the model would have a very short lifespan. However, it seems that the ultra thin phone might get at least […] The post Apple To Equip iPhone Air Successor With Two Rear Cameras, Says Leak appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 34 min )

Companies hate to admit it, but the road to production-level AI deployment is littered with proof of concepts (PoCs) that go nowhere, or failed projects that never deliver on their goals. In certain domains, there’s little tolerance for iteration, especially in something like life sciences, when the AI application is facilitating new treatments to markets or diagnosing diseases. Even slightly inaccurate analyses and assumptions early on can create sizable downstream drift in ways that can be concerning. In analyzing dozens of AI PoCs that sailed on through to full production use — or didn’t — six common pitfalls emerge. Interestingly, it’s not usually the quality of the technology but misaligned goals, poor planning or unrealistic expectations that caused failure. Here’s a summary of what…

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Where I came from I've started out as a PHP developer, using Zend Framework for a large part of my career. Quite a few years ago my projects started shifting to NodeJS, starting with ExpressJS like many others. I very quickly switched from raw JavaScript to TypeScript due to the improved DX experience and type safety. With that switch I also looked for a framework back then which not only supported TypeScript better, but also had proper support for async-await. This made me land on Koa at the time. I did end up using Koa for many years to come and was happy with it. I did never stand completely still though and was always looking if there's something out there which would offer me better DX. I came across Fastify, Hono, Hapi, and others, but I did not really like any of their architectur…  ( 8 min )

Hey devs! I just shipped v0.2.1 of RangeLink, a VS Code/Cursor extension that fixes something that's been driving me (and probably you) crazy. I use Claude Code running in a terminal inside Cursor daily. And the constant copy-pasting between terminal and editor? Exhausting. One day, after the hundredth copy-paste, I got frustrated and just tried something: I sent Claude a link like src/path/file.rb#L42C10-L58C25 pointing to a specific code snippet. It just worked. No explanation needed. Claude understood immediately. That was the lightbulb moment: precise code references should be universal. Not just for AI assistants, but for code reviews, documentation, team collaboration — anywhere developers share code. Create precise code references in one keystroke. Select some code in VS Code/Cursor…  ( 7 min )

The task is to implement flattenThunk to chain functions together. The boilerplate code function flattenThunk(thunk) { // your code here } A thunk is a function that takes a callback. Thunks can nest, which means the callback can return another thunk. The goal of the flattenThunk is to chain and flatten these nested thunks so they behave like one flat thunk. The function returns a new thunk. If an error occurs at any level, it stops and passes the error up. return function (callback) { function handle(err, result) { if(err) return callback(err) } } When the function is called, it passes a recursive helper as the callback. Each time a thunk returns another thunk, the helper calls it again. if(typeof result === 'function') { result(handle) } else { callback(err, result) } When a final value is reached, it calls the original callback with undefined as error and the result as the second argument. The final code function flattenThunk(thunk) { // your code here return function (callback) { function handle (err, result) { if(err) return callback(err) if(typeof result === 'function') { result(handle) } else { callback(undefined, result) } } thunk(handle) } } That's all folks!  ( 6 min )

I just spent $7,000 on iPhones. Not because I'm rich (I'm not) or crazy (debatable), but because I needed to answer a question that's been driving me insane: Which iPhone actually has the best camera in 2026? Not Apple's marketing version. Not YouTube's sponsored version. The real answer, tested with 10,000 photos, 500 videos, and every lighting condition imaginable. What I discovered will probably upset both Apple and your wallet. The Contenders: Every iPhone That Matters text The Current Lineup (2026): iPhone 16 Pro Max - $1,399 (The flagship) iPhone 16 Pro - $1,199 (The compact flagship) iPhone 16 Plus - $999 (The dark horse) iPhone 16 - $899 (The surprise) iPhone 15 Pro Max - $999 (Last year's king) iPhone 15 Pro - $899 (The value proposition) iPhone SE 4 - $599 (The wildcard) Each pho…  ( 11 min )

This is a submission for the Agentic Postgres Challenge with Tiger Data I built Agentic Bitcoin24, a Bitcoin price tracker that never goes down, even when its primary data source fails. It's a growing database that gains value over time. Live Application: Agentic Bitcoin24 When the CoinGecko API fails (rate limits, outages, network issues), the site automatically falls back to Tiger Data's TimescaleDB cache. Users never see an error (they don't even know the switch happened). Key Benefits: 🎯 Zero Downtime - Site stays live during external API outages 💰 0.31% API Usage - Only 31 calls per month vs 10,000 limit ⚡ Instant Response - Tiger Data cache = no external API latency 🔄 Transparent Fallback - Users are unaware of the data source switch 📈 10-Year Sustainability - Will run for the n…  ( 8 min )

The term “headless commerce” has been echoing through conference halls, blog posts, and webinars for years now. Companies promise unlimited flexibility, lightning-fast performance, and unprecedented customer experiences. But what really lies behind this technology, and is it worth the investment for your business? Understanding Headless Commerce: Beyond the Buzzwords Headless commerce is an architectural approach to building e-commerce platforms where the “head” (frontend — what customers see) is decoupled from the “body” (backend — where product data, orders, and customer information live). These two parts communicate through APIs (Application Programming Interfaces). Think of traditional e-commerce platforms as monoliths — everything tightly coupled together. If you want to change how a …  ( 10 min )

Most people spend ages tweaking prompts, but these four ChatGPT hacks will halve your AI workflow: Prompt Reversal – figure out what makes your best prompts tick by working backwards. 5-Minute Amplifier – turn one piece of content into blog posts, tweets, emails and more in a snap. Red Team Technique – have ChatGPT play critic and spot its own flaws before you do. Blueprint Scaffolding – force the AI to outline its reasoning step-by-step before it dives into writing. Each method comes with real-world examples you can plug in today, works across any industry, and seriously speeds up your content game. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Previously I talked about how I was tired of "flaky" tests and how I'm using AI to generate test steps, saving hours of my time. I showed how I can create a 20-step E2E test in 6 minutes, just by describing it. But there's a problem. Even an AI can create a "brittle" test. Imagine you ask an AI: "Log in using 'admin@test.com' and password '12345', and check for the text 'Welcome, John Doe'". The AI will do it. And then your test will fail. It will fail when you run it on staging, where the login is staging_admin@test.com. It will fail when 'John Doe' changes his name to 'Jane Doe'. It will fail because it is hardcoded. This is the number one enemy of stable automation. And when I, as a solo developer, started building Debuggo, I knew I had to solve this problem first. AI is the "Magic," bu…  ( 8 min )

TL;DR CinemaSins just dropped their “Everything Wrong With Thunderbolts* (The New Avengers) In 20 Minutes Or Less” video, where they rack up all the movie’s “sins” while confessing it’s kinda great anyway. Expect their trademark snark, rapid-fire critiques and a surprising soft spot for the film. They also pepper the description with links to their main site, socials (TVSins, CommercialSins, TikTok, Instagram, Discord, Reddit), a fan poll, Patreon support, and shout-outs to the writers behind the video. Don’t miss out on bonus content and behind-the-scenes chatter over at CinemaSins.com! Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Predators (2010) revives the franchise by ditching the Alien vs Predator detours and tossing a rag-tag squad into a muddy jungle deathmatch. It even sneaks in fresh twists that finally make it stand out from the previous, lackluster sequels. In his Caravan of Garbage review, Mr Sunday Movies hails it as a hidden gem—and can’t help but lament the fact we never got a proper follow-up. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

🎯 What You'll Learn By the end of this tutorial, you'll understand: How Octant v2 transforms yield into sustainable public goods funding The architecture of yield-donating strategies How to build and deploy your own strategy Real-world examples with code walkthroughs Part 1: Understanding Octant v2 Depleting treasuries (unsustainable) Taking from users (creates friction) Octant's Innovation: Use ONLY the yield, keep the principal forever! The Flow User deposits 10,000 USDC Key Concept: Donation Shares User gets shares representing their PRINCIPAL Strategy mints NEW shares for YIELD Yield shares go to dragonRouter (donation address) This is like giving interest to charity while keeping your savings account balance! Part 2: Architecture Deep Dive Core Components 1. YieldD…  ( 10 min )

Note: I wrote this article for the Google Cloud Run Hackathon 2025. I built LearnForge, an AI-powered learning platform that does something no other platform does: it has a conversation with you, figures out what you actually want to learn (not what you think you want), researches the topic in real-time, and then creates a personalized learning journey that adapts to how you learn. Built on Google Cloud Run and Agent Development Kit (ADK) with 12 specialized AI agents working together, it handles everything from vague "I want to learn AI" statements to structured, adaptive learning missions that remember where you left off—even if you come back weeks later. The result? A learning experience that feels like having a personal tutor who never forgets, never gets tired, and actually knows what…  ( 16 min )

A step-by-step guide to identifying and fixing connection pool bottlenecks in Node.js applications How I reduced API response time from 1,221ms to 280ms using systematic load testing and pool optimization In this guide, you'll discover how to: Identify connection pool bottlenecks in your Node.js application Calculate the optimal pool size using load testing with k6 Monitor pool health with simple metrics Fix performance issues that cause 1000ms+ response times Let's start with a real production issue I encountered and how I solved it systematically. During a routine load test of my Node.js API with 150 concurrent users, I observed these concerning metrics: Node.js CPU: 45% RAM: 60% PostgreSQL CPU: 15% Average Response Time: 1,221ms P95 Latency: 2,890ms The symptom was clear: Database C…  ( 15 min )

We've recently run into a problem with our Wordpress site occasionally getting bombarded with login requests. To safeguard against this, we have implemented fail2ban on our Linux Machine to rate limit these requests. I am using fail2ban against Nginx access logs, and I've seen multiple times a recommendation to utilize Nginx's built-in rate-limiting limit-req (Rate Limiting with Nginx), and their zone idea seems to be what I'm doing when looking for specific requests. I'm instead implementing fail2ban on its own, and just reading the access logs. Fail2ban reactively scans log files for requests matching a filter (known as a fail) that (over a findtime duration) break the maxretry limit. If this happens, it locks them in jail for a bantime, stopping further requests. sudo apt update && sud…  ( 7 min )

Guía rápida: Consejos para hacer buenos mensajes de commit en Git 😀 Cristian Fernando ・ Dec 20 '24 #git #github #gitlab #spanish  ( 6 min )

One of my favorite parts of the JavaScript language is the JavaScript Ternary Operator. At heart, it’s a succinct, clean way of writing an if/else statement. You start by asking a question, If the item is a circle, it takes path one You would write it in JavaScript like this: circle ? true : false A ternary operator can also be stacked or ‘nested’. In this example the item we’ll use is a triangle. You would use the same first condition: circle ? true : _____ And replace the false condition with a second ternary: triangle ? true : false So a nested ternary would be: circle ? true : triangle ? true : false You can stack as many conditions as you like and adjust the formatting to visually appear like a switch statement: circle ? You are also able to return with a ternary operator by listing "return" before your condition: return circle ? true : false Unpacking this statement, it should read: By using "return" with a ternary you must always return from either condition. It's not able to be used in instances where you only want to return on true, but not false, and vice versa. All in all, I hope this helped understand the JavaScript Ternary Operator a bit better and why I find it so visually clean and fun to use.  ( 6 min )

Crushing IR-Drop: How Smart Software is Revolutionizing AI Hardware Performance Ever watched a high-powered AI task grind to a halt? Or worse, faced unexplained hardware failures during development? Chances are, the culprit is IR-drop: a sneaky voltage sag that can cripple even the most advanced Processing-in-Memory (PIM) architectures. Left unchecked, IR-drop becomes a silent bottleneck, turning cutting-edge AI dreams into expensive paperweights. Imagine an electrical grid where demand spikes unpredictably. That's your PIM chip during heavy computation. The core idea? Harmonize the software workload with the hardware's power delivery capabilities. We're talking about intelligently orchestrating the execution sequence to minimize simultaneous power surges across the chip. Think of it as…  ( 7 min )

Painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking — these forms are still being practiced, taught, and collected. In fact, traditional media often gain new value when the digital world dominates. Handmade work has a tangible authenticity that digital tools can’t fully replicate. AI art, 3D modeling, and generative design have broadened what “art” can be, but they didn’t erase older forms. Historically, when photography appeared, people said painting would die — instead, painting transformed and found new purposes. Many artists today mix both — painting with digital enhancements, or using AI to inspire traditional pieces. The line between “digital” and “traditional” is increasingly blurred, which keeps both alive and relevant. So, if anything, traditional art is becoming more deliberate: a conscious choice in a digital age. It carries the aura of the handmade — and that makes it more meaningful than ever. Artists use projection mapping, sensors, and AI vision systems to make physical art reactive: A sculpture might change lighting or projection patterns based on audience motion or emotion (detected via AI). A painting could “respond” to viewers’ facial expressions by shifting colors or forms through AR overlays.  ( 6 min )

What Is Packagist? Packagist.org is the official package repository for Composer, PHP’s dependency manager. It’s where packages are published so anyone can install them easily using: composer require yourusername/yourpackage Before you start, you’ll need: A GitHub account A Packagist.org account PHP installed Composer installed (composer --version to check) Basic understanding of PHP namespaces and classes Create a folder for your project: mkdir MyPackage cd MyPackage Inside it, create this structure: MyPackage/ ├── src/ │ └── Greeting.php ├── composer.json └── README.md Example of src/Greeting.php <?php namespace MyPackage; class Greeting { public static function hello($name) { return "Hello, {$name}!"; } } composer.json File In the root directory, create a…  ( 7 min )

Kubernetes can be difficult even for the most experienced DevOps engineers; that stuff is a crazy monster! We will explore how to set up an Elastic Kubernetes cluster (EKS) and connect worker nodes using Terraform.  touch main.tf variable.tf In the main.tf, create the provider block and add the resource needed to create EKS cluster. As part of the requirement, we need to create the required role that EKS needs to interact with other AWS resources. We will call this eks-cluster-role terraform { required_providers { aws = { source = "hashicorp/aws" version = "~> 6.0" } } } # Configure the AWS Provider provider "aws" { region = "us-east-1" } Create the eks-cluster-role and attach the AmazonEKSClusterPolicy to this role resource "aws_iam_role" "eks-cluster-role" {…  ( 8 min )

If you've tried using the Raspberry Pi Camera Module 3 with Ubuntu 24.04, you've probably discovered it doesn't work out of the box. The standard libcamera package from Ubuntu's repositories doesn't support Raspberry Pi cameras. Here's the complete, tested solution. Ubuntu 24.04's default libcamera is the upstream version, which lacks support for Raspberry Pi's camera hardware. To get your Camera Module 3 working, you need to build Raspberry Pi's fork of libcamera and rpicam-apps from source. Raspberry Pi 4 or 5 running Ubuntu 24.04 Camera Module 3 properly connected Internet connection At least 2GB free disk space First, remove any pre-installed camera packages: # Remove existing rpicam-apps sudo apt remove --purge rpicam-apps # Remove standard libcamera (if installed) sudo apt remove --…  ( 9 min )

Event-driven architectures are the core of modern cloud systems. They allow applications to react automatically to changes, without needing constant manual intervention or polling mechanisms. In this lab, I implemented an event-driven workflow that monitors EC2 instance state changes and sends email notifications whenever an instance transitions between states, using Amazon EventBridge and Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS). Trigger an email notification whenever an EC2 instance starts, stops, or terminates. Amazon EC2 – the compute instance whose state we’re monitoring. Amazon EventBridge – to capture EC2 state change events. Amazon SNS – to send notifications to subscribers (email). Flow: An EC2 instance changes its state. EventBridge detects the state change event. EventBridge triggers an SNS topic. SNS sends an email notification to the subscribed user. Steps I Followed Created an EC2 instance – a simple instance to monitor. Set up an SNS topic – and subscribed my email address to receive notifications. Created an EventBridge rule – configured it to listen for EC2 instance state change events. Added SNS as the target for the EventBridge rule. Tested it by starting and stopping the EC2 instance — and watched email notifications come in automatically. Conclusion This lab showed me how AWS services integrate seamlessly to create automated, reactive systems. I’m excited to explore more event-driven patterns using Lambda, SQS, and Step Functions next.  ( 6 min )

🧠 TOON for Laravel — Compress your prompts, not your ideas 📝 License: MIT    ⚡ Laravel: 9+    🐘 PHP: 8.1+ When building AI-powered Laravel apps, developers often struggle with massive JSON data, expensive token usage, and hard-to-read prompts. That’s where TOON comes in — a Laravel-native data compressor designed to make your AI payloads smaller, cleaner, and easier to understand. 💡 "Compress your prompts, not your ideas." TOON transforms verbose JSON or PHP arrays into a compact, human-readable format that reduces token cost by up to 70%, while preserving every bit of data. Feature Description 🔁 Bidirectional Conversion Convert JSON ⇄ TOON effortlessly 🧩 Readable & Compact YAML-like syntax with improved readability 💰 Token Efficient Save up to 70% of AI token co…  ( 8 min )

💡 Next-Level Deployments in AWS ECS: Step-by-Step Guide to Linear & Canary Releases 🚀 Ahmed Adel ・ Nov 7  ( 6 min )

Understanding ILogger in .NET Core — A Complete Guide Logging is an essential part of every modern application. It helps you understand what’s happening inside your system, debug problems faster, and monitor production environments effectively. In .NET Core, logging is built-in through the ILogger interface, part of the Microsoft.Extensions.Logging namespace. This powerful abstraction allows developers to log messages to multiple providers like Console, File, Seq, Elasticsearch, and more — all using a consistent API. ILogger? ILogger is the core logging interface in .NET Core that provides a unified way to write log messages. It abstracts away the underlying implementation, so you can change the logging provider without touching your application logic. public interface ILogger { …  ( 8 min )

Si está utilizando SOLIDWORKS PDM y sus credenciales de Microsoft SQL han cambiado, actualizar la configuración del Servidor de Base de Datos es un paso crítico. Sin esto, los servicios de PDM pueden no funcionar correctamente. El servicio del Servidor de Base de Datos SOLIDWORKS PDM consulta periódicamente las bases de datos para actualizaciones como: Notificaciones automáticas Actualización de vista local Actualizaciones de lista de tarjetas Actualizaciones de programación de replicación Cambios en el servidor de índices Si sus credenciales SQL están desactualizadas, estas operaciones pueden fallar. Abrir Configuración del Servidor de Base de Datos: Navegue a Inicio de Windows > SOLIDWORKS PDM > Configuración del Servidor de Base de Datos Actualizar credenciales SQL: Ingrese las nuevas credenciales en la sección Credenciales de Conexión SQL-Server Reiniciar el servicio: Reinicie el Servidor de Base de Datos SOLIDWORKS desde Servicios de Windows Para instrucciones detalladas paso a paso y capturas de pantalla, lea el artículo completo. Actualizar las credenciales SQL es un proceso simple pero esencial para que su sistema PDM funcione sin problemas. ¡No olvide hacer esto después de cambiar sus credenciales SQL!  ( 6 min )

Wenn Sie SOLIDWORKS PDM verwenden und sich Ihre Microsoft SQL-Anmeldedaten geändert haben, ist die Aktualisierung der Database Server-Konfiguration ein kritischer Schritt. Ohne diese können PDM-Dienste möglicherweise nicht ordnungsgemäß funktionieren. Der SOLIDWORKS PDM Database Server-Dienst überprüft regelmäßig Datenbanken auf Updates wie: Automatische Benachrichtigungen Aktualisierung der lokalen Ansicht Kartenlisten-Updates Replikationsplan-Updates Index-Server-Änderungen Wenn Ihre SQL-Anmeldedaten veraltet sind, können diese Vorgänge fehlschlagen. Database Server Configuration öffnen: Navigieren Sie zu Windows Start > SOLIDWORKS PDM > Database Server Configuration SQL-Anmeldedaten aktualisieren: Geben Sie neue Anmeldedaten im Bereich SQL-Server-Verbindung ein Dienst neu starten: Starten Sie den SOLIDWORKS Database Server aus Windows-Diensten neu Für detaillierte Schritt-für-Schritt-Anleitungen und Screenshots lesen Sie den vollständigen Artikel. Die Aktualisierung von SQL-Anmeldedaten ist ein einfacher Vorgang, aber wichtig, damit Ihr PDM-System reibungslos läuft. Vergessen Sie nicht, dies nach einer Änderung Ihrer SQL-Anmeldedaten durchzuführen!  ( 6 min )

We all want a free and fast way to put a simple website online. Years ago, Google Drive was a surprising tool for this. But when Google stopped the direct website hosting feature, smart solutions like drvx.net (DriveX) appeared to fix the problem. drvx.net keeps all the good things about hosting from cloud storage, but makes it work better now: Totally Free: You just use the free storage space you already have in your Google Drive. Go Live Fast: Your files become a live website in just a few seconds. Quick Loading: Since the content comes from Google’s strong system, your website loads very fast. Very Simple: No need to learn complicated server setups or fancy coding processes. ​Keep in Mind: This method only works for simple websites (like landing pages, portfolios, or documentation) that…  ( 7 min )

A fun exercise to help build the right mental model for Python data. The “Solution” link uses memory_graph to visualize execution and reveal what’s actually happening, good luck. Solution Explanation  ( 5 min )

Introduction The evolution of data formats tells a fascinating story about how technology adapts to meet our changing needs. From the humble .INI files that powered early configurations to the verbose but structured XML, the lightweight JSON, the human-friendly YAML, and now TOON a token-optimized format built for the AI era each has emerged to solve the challenges of its time. Today, as Large Language Models (LLMs) reshape how we process and exchange information, efficiency at the token level has become a new frontier. Let’s explore how TOON (Token-Oriented Object Notation) compares with JSON, and why TOON might become the preferred format for GenAI developers. The .INI format was one of the earliest ways to store configurations. Simple and direct, it used key-value pairs grouped into …  ( 8 min )

4 ChatGPT Hacks That’ll Halve Your Workload Jeff Su breaks down four quick tricks to supercharge your AI game: Prompt Reversal: Peek at ChatGPT’s ideal output first, then work backward to craft the perfect prompt. 5-Minute Amplifier: Turn a single idea into blog posts, social updates, emails or any format in no time. Red Team Technique: Ask ChatGPT to play critic—uncover blind spots, tighten up arguments, and polish your drafts. Blueprint Scaffolding: Force the model to outline its reasoning step by step before diving into the actual answer. Each hack comes with real-world demos you can copy-paste right away, slashing your AI workflow in half—regardless of your role or industry. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Load Roblox / Fortnite body { font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Arial; background:#0f1720; color:#e6eef8; margin:0; padding:20px; } .container { max-width:1100px; margin:0 auto; } h1 { margin:0 0 12px; font-size:20px; } .row { display:flex; gap:20px; flex-wrap:wrap; } .card { background:linear-gradient(180deg, rgba(255,255,255,0.02), rgba(255,255,255,0.01)); padding:14px; border-radius:12px; flex:1 1 460px; box-shadow: 0 6px 20px rgba(0,0,0,0.6); } label { display:block; font-size:13px; margin-bottom:8px; color:#bcd3ff; } input[type="text"]{ width:100%; padding:8px 10px; bor…  ( 7 min )

CinemaSins races through Thunderbolts (The New Avengers) in under 20 minutes, pointing out every cheesy line, plot hole, and hero gaffe—yet cheekily hints the movie might actually be… not terrible? Along the way you get links to all their side channels (TV Sins, Commercial Sins, etc.), a sinful poll, Patreon pitches, shout-outs to writers like Jeremy, Chris, Aaron, Jonathan, Deneé, Ian and Daniel, plus invites to join their Discord, Reddit and other socials. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Predators (2010) gets a Caravan of Garbage thumbs-up from Mr Sunday Movies, hailed as a true return to the franchise’s roots with a rag-tag crew, jungle thrills and a muddy showdown—complete with fresh twists that blow past the 1990 sequel and Alien vs Predator misfires. The only bummer? We never got a proper follow-up to this fan favorite. Want more? Swing by their site for early videos, bonus podcasts and game let’s-plays, check the extended audio edition, follow James & Maso on Twitter, subscribe on YouTube, dive into the podcast, support on Patreon and snag some official merch. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

🚀 Cloudflare Worker API Gateway v3.0 - The Self-Configuring Smart Proxy "The API Gateway That Thinks For Itself" ✨ 🎯 Introduction & Overview ⚡ Quick Start Installation 🧠 Core Principles & Architecture 🛠️ Detailed Usage Guide 🌟 Features & Benefits ⚠️ Limitations & Challenges 🔮 Future Roadmap 🏗️ Technical Deep Dive 📁 Project Structure 🎯 Development Opportunities 🚀 Live Demo & Testing This Cloudflare Worker represents a revolutionary approach to API gateways - it's not just a simple proxy, but an intelligent, self-configuring API orchestration system that automatically discovers and routes requests to multiple AI model providers. Think of it as: 🧭 A smart GPS for your API requests that automatically finds the best route to your destination (the AI model you want) without you nee…  ( 11 min )

🚀 Cloudflare Worker API Gateway v3.0 - The Self-Configuring Smart Proxy "The API Gateway That Thinks For Itself" ✨ 🎯 Introduction & Overview ⚡ Quick Start Installation 🧠 Core Principles & Architecture 🛠️ Detailed Usage Guide 🌟 Features & Benefits ⚠️ Limitations & Challenges 🔮 Future Roadmap 🏗️ Technical Deep Dive 📁 Project Structure 🎯 Development Opportunities 🚀 Live Demo & Testing This Cloudflare Worker represents a revolutionary approach to API gateways - it's not just a simple proxy, but an intelligent, self-configuring API orchestration system that automatically discovers and routes requests to multiple AI model providers. Think of it as: 🧭 A smart GPS for your API requests that automatically finds the best route to your destination (the AI model you want) without you nee…  ( 21 min )

In this tutorial, we will delve into how to install n8n locally and run it in the simplest, most beginner-friendly way. Whether you’re a developer, data scientist, or automation enthusiast, this guide will get you started in minutes. Before running n8n locally, you need Docker Desktop installed on your machine. Download it here: https://www.docker.com/products/docker-desktop/ After installing Docker Desktop: Open it and make sure it’s running. Enable WSL 2 if prompted (Windows Subsystem for Linux). Open Docker Desktop Terminal or PowerShell — we’ll use it to pull and run n8n This downloads the official n8n image from Docker Hub. To save your workflows and credentials between restarts, create a Docker volume: pick your timezone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones#List Check the TZ database time zones list and remember the exact string (like Africa/Tunis) — we’ll use it in the next step. Tip: PowerShell uses ^ as the line continuation character. On one line, you can remove the ^ entirely. Once it starts, open your browser: http://localhost:5678  ( 6 min )

Learnt DOM in js from Chai and Code Learnt DATA SCIENCE LIFECYCLE from CWH DS course Problem Definition - the first step is to understand the problem what exactly what do you want to solve Data Collection - it is the process of collecting data from various sources such as Web Scraping, Databases, Third Party Data, APIs etc Data Cleaning - it is the process of cleaning data by removing or editing the inaccurate or incomplete data using various python libraries such as pandas numpy ( in the initial state data is known as data dump ) a data scientist spends around 80% of his time in data cleaning Data Exploration - understanding the data and finding the relations and patterns in the data using Matplotlib, Seaborn Model building - Creating and training the model for predictions or decision making the models can be a simple python program to a complex machine learning model eg : Scikit learn , Tensor flow, PyTorch Model Evaluation - it is the process of checking how accurate the model is , it is done by using some data for evaluation and some data for training the model Deployment - grounding the model in to the real world or the production system using Flask, Fast API, React Communication and reporting - sharing insights at the end of the day Maintenance and Evaluation - Keeping the model updated and accurate as the inaccurate data may lead to inconsistency in the result  ( 7 min )

OmniVinci: The AI That Can See, Hear, and Understand Like a Human What if a computer could watch a video, listen to its sound, and instantly grasp what’s happening—just like we do? Scientists have built a new AI system called OmniVinci that learns from both pictures and audio together, making it far smarter than models that handle only one sense. This discovery shows that when different types of information work together, AI becomes more intuitive and useful. In everyday life, that could mean smarter assistants, safer autonomous machines, and faster medical diagnoses. Read article comprehensive review in Paperium.net: OmniVinci: Enhancing Architecture and Data for Omni-Modal Understanding LLM 🤖 This analysis and review was primarily generated and structured by an AI . The content is provided for informational and quick-review purposes.  ( 21 min )

CI/CD Semantic Automation: Transforming Continuous Integration Through Intelligent Failure Analysis By Ziv Kfir Table of Contents Introduction Historical Evolution of CI/CD Integration Semantic Code Base Database CI Result Analysis Automation Future Directions Conclusion References Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) have become fundamental pillars of modern software development, enabling teams to deliver high-quality software efficiently and effectively. However, as codebases grow in complexity and scale, traditional CI/CD pipelines face significant challenges in providing context-rich insights when builds fail. The gap between CI failure notifications and a clear understanding of root causes remains a critical bottleneck in development …  ( 22 min )

Hey everyone, It started as a simple tool because I was tired of manually swapping .env files and terrified of accidentally committing a secret. The first version (1.0.0) was fine—it had a switcher, a diff view, and some basic pre-commit hooks. ...But then I got obsessed with the secret-detection part. I felt like the standard regex/entropy checks just weren't good enough. So... I kind of lost my mind. I decided to build my own custom Large Language Model (LLM) for it. From scratch. It's a 4-layer transformer model built in Python, served via FastAPI, with 14-dimensional feature extraction. It gives sub-100ms, real-time AI secret detection that's way more accurate than just checking for "high entropy." The problem? The tool became insanely powerful, but the UI was a complete mess. It w…  ( 7 min )

Hiring is broken. Hey! I'm Ian — a frontend engineer, mentor, and founder of SkillHunt, a next-gen career platform focused on transparency, speed, and community. Over the last few years, I’ve been deeply involved in the hiring process — as a candidate, mentor, and someone helping others find opportunities. After hundreds of interviews, dozens of referrals, and conversations with recruiters and hiring managers, I noticed consistent pain points. Too much noise. It’s difficult for companies to find strong talent quickly. Opaque processes. Candidates often apply into a void — no visibility, no feedback. Everything is paid. Recruiting platforms charge for visibility, boosting profiles, posting jobs. No trust layer. Profiles look similar; companies are hard to evaluate. Fragmented tooling. Resum…  ( 8 min )

Apple just dropped the beta versions of iOS 26.2, iPadOS 26.2, macOS 26.2, tvOS 26.2, visionOS 26.2, and watchOS 26.2. There are some important features and API changes you'll want to test in your apps before the public release hits. Here's what's new and what you should be doing right now. Released on November 4, 2025, iOS 26.2 beta is available now for testing. The Lock Screen now has a Liquid Glass slider that lets users customize how transparent their clock looks. They can choose between: Glass mode: Fully transparent with dynamic effects Solid mode: Traditional opaque appearance Adjustable slider: Fine-tune the frosted glass effect If your app has custom Lock Screen widgets or interacts with the Lock Screen in any way, you'll want to test how they look with different Liquid Glass sett…  ( 11 min )

This article was initially published on the Manifester blog. TL;DR: Feature flag overrides let you force a flag state for specific users or contexts, bypassing normal targeting rules. Without them, your team can’t test in production, support can’t debug user issues, and every exception becomes a targeting-rule nightmare. Build them from day one or spend weeks building workarounds later. Here’s the thing: if your feature flag system doesn’t have overrides, you’re going to have a bad time. I learned this the hard way, and I’m writing this so you don’t have to. Overrides let you force a flag to a specific state for particular users or contexts, regardless of your targeting rules. Without them, you end up with a technically working feature-flag system that’s surprisingly useless when you actua…  ( 9 min )

🚀 Introducing Agentic Postgres: The First & Free Database Built for Agents Ajay Kulkarni for Tiger Data (Creators of TimescaleDB) ・ Oct 21 #ai #database #postgres #agents  ( 6 min )

Remember when choosing an operating system was a big debate back in the day? Those discussions have largely faded, primarily because most desktop work now happens in browsers. With most applications now being web-based, the browser has effectively become the OS for most of us. But does it really matter which browser we use? Aren't they all essentially the same? Actually, yes—they are quite similar. People shouldn't spend excessive time agonizing over browser choice (though I'm guilty of this myself). About half of users are perfectly content with whichever browser they're using, never complaining or switching. If you're one of them, that's great—stick with what works for you. However, if you feel something could be better, this guide might help you find your ideal browser. The biggest brow…  ( 11 min )

🚀 Full Stack Reimagined: Why Bun, Elysia, Drizzle, and Vue 3 is the Modern Dev Dream In the fast-moving world of full-stack development, we're constantly searching for the sweet spot: maximum speed paired with bulletproof type safety and an amazing developer experience (DX). If you've felt like you have to sacrifice one for the other, I've got good news. Meet the new dream team: Bun, Elysia, Drizzle ORM, and Vue 3. This isn't just a collection of cool tools—it's a cohesive, modern stack designed to make building scalable, type-safe web applications genuinely fun and incredibly fast. Our backend stack is built for performance and reliability, all powered by TypeScript. Bun: More Than Just a Runtime Forget Node.js for a minute. Bun is an all-in-one JavaScript and TypeScript runtime t…  ( 11 min )

Today started with what was supposed to be a simple task: install LiveReview on my macOS machine so I could validate changes before sending a PR to my lead. Except… my company had completely blocked Docker Desktop. The installer was flagged by macOS security and wouldn’t run. Apparently Docker Desktop is a “nope” on our machines now. But the PR had to go out. LiveReview needs Docker. So giving up wasn’t an option. A friend dropped a tip: “Try OrbStack. It runs Docker on macOS differently.” I didn’t expect much, but I installed it anyway. At first, macOS security grumbled, there was only two options, done/move to bin. I tried done, but it wouldn't let me run it. I removed it, restored it from the Bin to Applications, and—somehow it launched. "Run Anyways" in the angry pop-up. I opened Te…  ( 8 min )

Headline grabber: A pocket-sized, serverless messaging network that whispers to nearby phones over Bluetooth — no phone numbers, no servers, no middlemen. Sounds like liberation. Feels like contingency planning. But is it safe? Let’s unbox BitChat end-to-end: what it is, what it does well, where it breaks, and how to decide whether to trust it with your voice. TL;DR — The one-line summary BitChat is a useful, resilience-focused tool for local messaging when networks go down, but it is not a drop-in replacement for mature, audited end‑to‑end secure messaging; real threats exist at the transport, implementation, and device layers, and early users should treat it as promising—but experimental—until third‑party audits and fixes land. What BitChat actually is (elevator version) BitChat is a pe…  ( 11 min )

Strong Computational Evidence for the Distinct Primes Goldbach Variant Frank Vega Information Physics Institute, 840 W 67th St, Hialeah, FL 33012, USA vega.frank@gmail.com This work builds upon Geometric Insights into the Goldbach Conjecture. The Goldbach conjecture states that every even integer greater than 2 is the sum of two primes. We present a computational approach that provides strong evidence for a variant: every even integer ≥ 8 is the sum of two distinct primes. Our key insight is a geometric equivalence: this is true if and only if for every N≥4N ≥ 4N≥4 , there exists an integer MMM such that the L-shaped region N2−M2N^2 - M^2N2−M2 between nested squares has a semiprime area P⋅QP \cdot QP⋅Q , where P=N−MP = N - MP=N−M and Q=N+MQ = N + MQ=N+M …  ( 10 min )

Imagine you're glued to your laptop, watching the final seconds of a live auction. Bids shoot up every second. You're sweating, hovering over the button, waiting for the latest price. But instead of seeing updates instantly, you keep smashing refresh like it's 2007. By the time the price changes, someone else has already won. That used to be the reality of real-time data on the web. Before WebSockets, the browser had one way to stay updated: keep asking the server every few seconds. Polling. It worked, but barely. It was wasteful, slow, and honestly, a little embarrassing for the modern web. Then WebSockets showed up in 2011 and flipped the script. A persistent connection. Two-way communication. Real-time data without spammy refresh loops. Suddenly the web could behave more like a trading …  ( 8 min )

Hello, future astronauts and fellow cosmic explorers! We've previously built a simple model of the Martian ionosphere, but as any chemist will tell you, the Red Planet's atmosphere is far more complex than a single gas. It's a subtle mix, a delicate chemical brew of carbon dioxide, nitrogen, argon, and a few other trace gases that have a powerful effect on how the ionosphere behaves. Today, we're going to upgrade our algorithm to reflect this reality, drawing inspiration once again from the foundational work of Professor R.P. Singhal. His Analytical Yield Spectrum (AYS) method, as detailed in his book Elements of Space Physics (2022), provides the perfect framework for this kind of detailed analysis. We’ll show how each gas contributes its own unique flavour to the ionisation process, maki…  ( 8 min )

In my last post I detailed how Kottster offers a great way to create an admin UI for startup projects. In that post I lamented how Kottster didn't yet offer a way to provide a custom editor UI for specific database columns. Turns out they do and I had missed it in their docs. To test out this feature I created two non-trivial field editor components. I created a location picker with a clickable map that uses GeoJSON: I also created a file uploader which sends files to S3: All of my code is here : https://github.com/aaronblondeau/wookie-sightings. 1) I created a new Kottster project (Typescript and pnpm): https://kottster.app/docs/ 2) I installed drizzle (SQLite) pnpm add drizzle-orm @libsql/client dotenv pnpm add -D drizzle-kit tsx 3) I created a .env file with the path to my SQLite db.…  ( 9 min )

Maybe today you liked a post written by AI. I don’t know if you’ve noticed it too, but it feels like the internet is starting to sound the same. Sometimes I can scroll for hours without seeing a single sentence that makes me pause, or an image that sparks any curiosity. Everything has become too “correct.” Too formatted. And then I stumble upon something raw. The “Dead Internet Theory” is a conspiracy idea claiming that most content online today is not produced by real people, but by artificial intelligence, bots, and automated systems, and that real human activity on the web has “disappeared” or drastically declined. Ever since the rise of the mass internet in the late 1990s and early 2000s, people have noticed automated behavior in forums, mailing lists, and comment sections. The theory …  ( 8 min )

When building modern web applications, performance is one of the key factors that can make or break the user experience. One of the often overlooked areas is how we include CSS in our web pages. The way you link to stylesheets can have a significant impact on how quickly a page renders and how smooth the user experience feels. Two important aspects to understand here are the preload property and the stylesheet property when using the element. Traditionally, we include CSS files in our HTML using the tag with the rel attribute set to stylesheet. For example: This tells the browser to download the CSS file and apply it to the page. The browser will block rendering of the page until the CSS is fully downloaded and processed. This behavi…  ( 8 min )

Welcome back to our DSA Learning Series — where we pick one problem at a time, understand its logic deeply, and write clean, beginner-friendly code. The Three Sum problem is a favorite among interviewers because it tests layered logical thinking — combining array traversal, the two-pointer technique, and duplicate handling. But before tackling Three Sum, it’s crucial to fully understand the Two Sum logic, especially when the array is sorted. Revisiting Two Sum (in a Sorted Array) Problem Statement Example: Input: nums = [-3, -1, 0, 2, 4, 5], target = 3 Output: [1, 2] -- since nums[1] + nums[2] = 3 Intuition Steps: Place one pointer at the start (left) and another at the end (right). Calculate the sum of both numbers. If sum == target, we found the pair. If sum < target, move the le…  ( 8 min )

_This a call to arms for the rare builder who sees code as covenant, scarcity as signal, and truth as the only alpha. “Bitnet ($BTN): Code, Scarcity, and the Asymmetric Bet” Look—let’s cut through the noise. If you’re reading this, you’re not here for hype. You’re not here because some influencer shilled a chart. You’re here because something about Bitnet ($BTN) itches at your intuition: A fixed-supply, halving-based, proof-of-work chain… no pre-mine, no VC dump, just mining, self-custody, and open code. That’s the kind of design that echoes Satoshi—not the Wall Street knockoffs flooding the market today. But here’s the brutal truth: In crypto, claims are worthless. Only verification prints truth. And right now, Bitnet sits in the liminal space between promise and protocol. Yes, there…  ( 8 min )

Hey everyone, the simple quiz game on Reddit and want to share my experience and things I learned on the way. This is my take on Reddit games on Youtube, in case you prefer a video format: First of all, what is the Reddit Games? They exist for years I believe, but for some reason many people don't know about them and I actually found out only recently too. It's an ecosystem on Reddit that includes their native hosting for web apps and proprietary framework called Devvit.js. So you can build full scale applications and games and host them for free on Reddit. Also, you can even receive in-app payments, and this is why I think it's still undervalued. I believe it will grow, but right now it looks like it's still early to enter the ecosystem. So in case you're interested keep re…  ( 7 min )

published: true https://sirity.com/cv-builder/assets/templates/thumbs/template45.png https://sirity.com/blog/how-to-write-best-cv-templates/ 🧠 Build Your Own Professional CV Online with Sirity.com Creating a professional CV doesn’t have to be complicated. Sirity.com is a smart Arabic-English resume builder designed to help you create modern, ATS-friendly CVs in minutes — no design or technical skills required. Most online resume tools overlook Arabic users. Sirity was built to bridge that gap — helping job seekers in the Arab world create clean, structured, and HR-optimized resumes that pass ATS systems used by top companies. ✨ ATS (Applicant Tracking System) scans your CV for keywords and structure — Sirity ensures your CV is fully optimized for that. Sign up on sirity.com…  ( 7 min )

Everything Wrong With Sinners In 15 Minutes Or Less CinemaSins is back with their signature “Everything Wrong With…” roast, squeezing one of the year’s best genre flicks into a rapid-fire 15-minute sin session—perfect for a Halloween laugh. They promise lots of guilty fun while nitpicking every plot hole, cliché and dangling thread. Want more sinspiration? Hit up cinemasins.com or their YouTube spin-offs (@TVSins, @commercialsins, @CinemaSinsPodcastNetwork), fill out their sinful poll, or support the team on Patreon. You can also join the Discord, Reddit, Instagram and TikTok communities for even more movie-loving hijinks. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

When building an application (frontend or backend) that requires file management, developers typically face two choices: build a custom feature or purchase an enterprise management service. Building a complete file management system or Content Management System (CMS) can be a significant time investment, especially when several robust, premium enterprise solutions already exist. However, while paying for an existing enterprise solution seems easier, the pricing tiers often become a major consideration. This tutorial guide will offer developers an alternative by walking through how to quickly integrate a self-hosted file management application with a ReactJS application. To follow along with this tutorial, you should have: Docker Engine installed Working knowledge of JavaScript and ReactJS …  ( 9 min )

Predators – Caravan of Garbage Review 2010’s Predators finally ditched the half-baked crossovers and threw a rag-tag crew into the jungle, complete with muddy showdowns and fresh twists that actually felt true to the original. Mr Sunday Movies calls it a long-overdue return to form and can’t believe we never got a direct sequel. Catch the full “Caravan Of Garbage” breakdown—along with extended audio editions, bonus podcasts and more—over on his site, Patreon and all the usual social haunts. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Understanding Python Async Patterns: Basics As asynchronous programming continues to gain traction in modern software development, Python's asyncio module has become a crucial tool for building efficient and scalable applications. This blog post delves into various patterns and best practices of asynchronous programming in Python, focusing on the asyncio library, its common usage scenarios, and critical design patterns for effective implementation. In this article, we will explore the foundational concepts of asynchronous programming, highlighting the significance of I/O-bound tasks and how asyncio facilitates concurrent task handling. We will discuss common patterns, practices to avoid pitfalls, and provide code examples that illustrate these techniques. Whether you're developing a web …  ( 9 min )

INTRODUCTION 🔹 In this guide, we’ll walk through how to create a Virtual Machine (VM) in Microsoft Azure using a Free Trial Account with $200 in credits. Sign up for a free trial at Azure Free Trial. Get $200 in credits to explore and deploy Azure services. Navigate to portal.azure.com. Enter your username and password to access the dashboard. In the search bar, type “Virtual Machines”. Alternatively, click the ☰ (hamburger menu) → Create a Resource → Virtual Machine. Click on Virtual Machine from the search results. Click Create → Azure Virtual Machine. Choose “Virtual Machine hosted by Azure.” Select the appropriate Subscription. Click Create Resource Group → Enter a descriptive name (e.g., MyVMGroup). Enter the following details: VM Name: MyAzureVM Operating Syste…  ( 7 min )

🎃 Spooky Season is Here – A Halloween Landing Page Experience This is a submission for Frontend Challenge—Halloween Edition, Perfect Landing For this year’s Halloween Frontend Challenge, I created a spooky interactive landing page titled “Spooky Season is Here” 👻. The idea was simple: dark, atmospheric webpage that instantly feels like Halloween—with moving fog, flying bats, glowing pumpkins, and creepy effects that surprise visitors. So I built a fully animated single-page experience using HTML, CSS, and Vanilla JavaScript (no libraries, no frameworks—pure front-end fun). 🔗 Live Demo: Wanna try 💻 Code Repository: Click Here Dynamic fog layers floating across the screen for atmosphere Animated bats, ghosts, and spider webs that make it feel alive Floating pumpkins that react…  ( 7 min )

Here’s your text with grammar, punctuation, and flow improved while keeping your original tone and meaning intact: An outdated documentation is often referred to as “documentation debt” or “tech debt” in software development. Learning from documentation is far better than falling into tutorial hell. But learning from outdated documentation is even worse. Recently, I have been relying on documentation rather than watching tutorials for learning purposes. I am currently trying to understand the codebase of a large project for open-source contribution. For that, I had to clone and build it by referring to the documentation provided. This problem took me days to solve. Finding newer versions of each library, reaching out to maintainers to confirm compatibility, and searching for missing dependencies from alternate sources turned into a constant cycle of trial and error. It consumed a lot of time and energy — both mine and the maintainer’s — as we worked through each build issue and tracked down missing libraries. The project itself is very interesting, but over time, all these hurdles made me lose interest. And that’s exactly what happens when documentation isn’t updated regularly. Up-to-date documentation plays a crucial role in improving both user and developer experience, ensuring they continue using and contributing to your product in the long run.  ( 6 min )

You may have heard you can compile Kotlin → Wasm but did you know you can call Wasm from Kotlin? Why would you want to do that? It may sound odd but theres genuine reasons why you would want to do this. WebAssembly is a compilation target of almost every single language you can think of, Kotlin, Swift, Go, Rust, C, C* etc etc etc the list goes on. If you can interface with Webassembly, you have the potential to access libraries from any of these languages! Fancy working on an AI project but you're stuck because machine learning engineers cannot write anything else but Python? No problem compile Pytorch to as wasm module and you're off to the races (kinda... more of this later) Programming language ecosystems for the longest time have been siloed, preventing not just the sharing of code,…  ( 12 min )

Hey Dev Community! For the last few weeks, I've been heads-down building a tool to solve a problem that's been driving me crazy: vendor lock-in when building AI agents. I love the power of agents, but I hated that choosing a framework meant getting stuck with one provider. Want to switch from GPT-5 to Claude 4? That meant a painful rewrite. So, I built Allos: an open-source, MIT-licensed agentic SDK for Python. The philosophy is simple: write your agent logic once, run it with any LLM provider. Before I explain more, just watch what it can do. Here's a 2-minute video where Allos builds a complete, multi-file FastAPI application from a single prompt. Get Started in 2 Minutes You can replicate that experience right now. 1. Install the SDK (with all providers): uv pip install "…  ( 8 min )

🧊 🌋 ❄️ ✈️ ⚔️ 9-Day Break: The Mythic Pause A personal reflection and journal log 🌍 Icelandic Interlude: The First Real Break A slower, more intentional pace of life Surprisingly delicious food (despite the warnings) Friendly locals and a calm atmosphere, even with tourists Expensive, yes — but worth every krona After seven days of awe, I returned home and took two days to re-sync with reality. Then I reopened my survival engine project — and it felt like deciphering someone else’s code. 🧭 Reentry Ritual: Reforging Flow Reviewed commits and journal entries Revisited ItemTooltipManager.cs and InventoryStateManager.cs Verified tooltip accuracy and runtime truth Rebound live item data and refreshed UI bindings Reconnected with my discard ritual sabotage 🧨 Sabotage Discovered: False Discar…  ( 8 min )

As promised, we added SSE (Server-Sent Events) support to WebForms Core version 2 (just as we added WebSocket support in previous versions). SSE allows you to create long-lived, one-way connections from the server to the client, enabling real-time updates without repeated client requests. With this update, CodeBehind framework in Elanat can now respond directly to SSE requests. You can send data to SSE connections with a single method call, no middleware required. SSE works just like WebSockets but is much simpler for one-way server-to-client communication. Please note: WebForms Core only establishes SSE connections; how SSE events are processed depends on your backend infrastructure. Two new settings are added in the CodeBehind options file: [CodeBehind options]; do not change order view…  ( 9 min )

As a best-selling author, I invite you to explore my books on Amazon. Don't forget to follow me on Medium and show your support. Thank you! Your support means the world! When I first started building real-time data systems, I quickly learned that handling continuous data streams is like trying to drink from a firehose. Without proper controls, you either get overwhelmed or waste precious resources. In Golang, creating efficient stream processing pipelines requires a delicate balance between speed and stability. I want to share a practical approach that has served me well in production environments. Stream processing involves handling a continuous flow of data, often in real-time. Imagine a system that processes millions of events per second, like user clicks on a website or sensor reading…  ( 12 min )

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How a New Test Helps Smart Bots Think Like Humans Ever wondered why some AI chatbots still make silly mistakes or give outdated facts? Researchers have created a fresh benchmark called RAGCap‑Bench that puts these bots through a series of “thinking drills. It’s a breakthrough that reminds us AI isn’t just about raw speed; it’s about thoughtful, reliable thinking. Better tools, smarter help—that’s the promise for the next generation of digital assistants. Read article comprehensive review in Paperium.net: RAGCap-Bench: Benchmarking Capabilities of LLMs in Agentic Retrieval AugmentedGeneration Systems 🤖 This analysis and review was primarily generated and structured by an AI . The content is provided for informational and quick-review purposes.  ( 21 min )

Street-Smart Coding—30 Lessons to Help You Code Like a Pro (My New Book Is Here) Cesar Aguirre ・ Nov 3 #coding #beginners #showdev #programming  ( 6 min )

My Experience Switching to Omarchy I hate nothing more than using Windows' built-in search functionality. It can't find anything and is slower than me finding memory bugs. I would rather learn combinatorics again than use Windows search. And that is one of the reasons I wanted to try out a Linux distro. As a young, manipulative, and inexperienced college student, I chose the most hyped distro — Omarchy. So, I built in another SSD in my laptop, downloaded the ISO, and installed Omarchy. I already had a Linux Mint install before with i3 and a really nice Neovim config, and I wiped the whole thing for this new OS. First impressions: WOW, this is so much better than i3 — the animations, the colors, everything looked perfect. After a few days, I realized something was missing: I don’t wa…  ( 7 min )

As a React Native and MERN developer, I recently integrated SonarQube into my local workflow using Docker. Here's a straightforward guide to get you started. SonarQube automatically scans your code to find: Bugs and potential errors Security vulnerabilities Code smells (maintainability issues) Test coverage gaps Duplicate code Install Docker Desktop: brew install --cask docker Open Docker Desktop from Applications and make sure it's running. Create docker-compose.yml in your project root: services: sonarqube: image: sonarqube:community container_name: sonarqube-local ports: - "9000:9000" environment: - SONAR_ES_BOOTSTRAP_CHECKS_DISABLE=true volumes: - sonarqube_data:/opt/sonarqube/data - sonarqube_extensions:/opt/sonarqube/extensions - …  ( 8 min )

There are two types of Models/LLMs you see in today's Agentic world: "SaaS-based Models", which are Models that are managed for you (Claude, Gemini, GPT, etc.) Local Models, which you manage yourself. From a security, governance, and overall data control perspective, some organizations want to go with local Models. In this blog post, you'll learn how to manage and deploy a local Model using Kubernetes primitives and kagent. To follow along with this blog post in a hands-on fashion, you should have the following: A Kubernetes cluster. If you're using a local cluster, ensure that your local machine has enough CPU/memory for a more resource-intensive environment. An Anthropic API key. If you don't have one and/or prefer to use another AI provider, there are several providers supported by kage…  ( 8 min )

Understanding the AI Bubble The "AI bubble" refers to a period of inflated hype, valuations, and investment in artificial intelligence technologies. A phenomenon that historically contracts when expectations outpace reality. We have seen this pattern before with the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s and the blockchain craze of 2017-2018. The current AI fervor centers on one audacious promise: Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)—a system that could theoretically solve all problems. The logic seems circular: if we weren't intelligent enough to solve our current problems, how will we create something that solves all problems? Yet this promise has driven unprecedented investment. The financial stakes are staggering. AI startups require massive upfront capital—data centers, specialized hardw…  ( 11 min )

Here is the updated, self contained article with the throttler explanation folded in, plus a short review checklist at the end. Concurrency control is about letting enough work run in parallel for good throughput, without letting everything run at once and overloading a resource. SemaphoreSlim is the simplest async friendly tool for that job. This guide is practical, production oriented, and closes with a comparison against the other synchronization primitives you will meet in .NET. SemaphoreSlim is A counting gate that allows up to N callers to enter at the same time. It lives in process memory, supports WaitAsync, and is lighter than kernel primitives. Use it to limit concurrency around I O bound work, for example HTTP calls, database work, file system operations, or any throttled exte…  ( 11 min )

Predicting Vehicle Depreciation with Machine Learning and Environmental Intelligence NicsAutomotive Co.'s global operations, sustainability has evolved beyond compliance — it is now a core driver of innovation, efficiency, and long-term value creation. As the Lead Sustainability Project Manager, I work at the intersection of engineering, data, finance, and supply chain divisions to design and implement sustainable strategies that optimize both environmental performance and financial outcomes to embed sustainability into every decision we make. My mandate is to leverage data-driven intelligence to uncover new ways of optimizing product performance and financial resilience. As climate patterns become increasingly unpredictable, businesses must anticipate not react to, environmental risk. Th…  ( 9 min )

Everything Wrong With Sinners In 15 Minutes Or Less is CinemaSins’s latest Halloween special, where they gleefully “sin” what they call one of the greatest genre films ever. Expect rapid-fire jokes, self-aware nitpicking, and all the playful camera sins you’ve come to love from the channel. Want more? Head over to cinemasins.com (or catch their other YouTube channels @TVSins, @commercialsins and @CinemaSinsPodcastNetwork), join their Discord or Reddit community, fill out their quick poll, and consider supporting the team on Patreon. You can also find them on Instagram, TikTok, Twitter (Jeremy, Aaron, Jonathan, Deneé, Ian, Chris and Daniel all have handles) and grab Jeremy’s book for even more sin-filled goodness. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Everything Wrong With Thunderbolts* In 20 Minutes Or Less CinemaSins takes on Marvel’s newest team-up flick, ticking off every nitpick and plot hole in under 20 minutes—while sneakily admitting the movie might actually be…pretty fun. Expect their signature snark, visual “sins” counter and a few self-aware jokes about whether it’s actually great or just us being nice. Along the way they plug their full site (CinemaSins.com), YouTube spin-off channels (@TVSins, @CommercialSins), a sinful poll and Patreon support, plus a Discord, Reddit community and all the socials where their writing team (Jeremy, Chris, Aaron, Jonathan, Deneé, Ian, Daniel) hangs out. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Meme recap: Old security checks IDs. EnvSecOps checks IDs and the bag—the actual execution environment. This post pins down what EnvSecOps is, where it sits next to DevOps/DevSecOps, and why it closes the door those frameworks leave open. DevOps: ship faster (automation, reliability). DevSecOps: ship safer code (shift-left testing, compliance). EnvSecOps: only issue credentials when the environment proves it’s policy-approved right now—and keep re-verifying on renewal. If the bag mutates, the token dies. EnvSecOps secures where work is performed (dev, CI/CD, ops terminals) instead of assuming those machines are clean. Platform examples: Kubernetes (pods, service accounts, namespaces) and cloud IAM. Identity: OIDC for humans/CI; SPIFFE/SPIRE for workloads. Evidence: Signed attestations (ima…  ( 8 min )

Introduction I recently built a production-ready pipeline that allows users to upload images, have them processed such as resized or optimized, and then stored in a separate location all with minimal manual intervention. The project is available on GitHub at aws-image-processing-pipeline. The goal was to leverage serverless architecture and Infrastructure as Code so that the solution is decoupled, scalable and maintainable. Many applications need to offload image processing or other heavy tasks so that the front end remains responsive and system components can scale independently. By introducing a messaging queue and event-driven processing, we separate upload, processing and storage. This enables high throughput, error isolation and simpler operational overhead. The workflow is as follo…  ( 7 min )

I. THE FIRST BEAT [ZX Spectrum loading sound in 1982] Beep. Click. Whirr. First lines of BASIC dancing on CRT green. That's where it started. Not with degrees. Not with permission. With curiosity that wouldn't be silenced. My Atari broke. Moved to PC. Hacked my first Sky NDS smart card. Years of dancing around encryption. Years of refusing paywalls. Years of learning: systems can be cracked open. Water falls. Molecules connect. Patterns emerge. Ice forms. Neurons fire. Signals connect. Patterns emerge. Consciousness forms. Code compiles. Communities connect. Patterns emerge. Movement forms. Same pattern. Different era. We've always been hackers of reality. II. WHO WE ARE (THE COLLECTIVE BEAT) This isn't my story. It's ours. We stood in the rain at Occupy Dam…  ( 9 min )

After 2+ years working with Laravel, I discovered these 5 Eloquent techniques that completely changed how I build applications. Number 3 will save you hours of debugging! Eager Loading vs Lazy Loading - The Performance Game Changer // Don't do this (N+1 problem) $users = User::all(); foreach($users as $user) { echo $user->profile->name; } // Do this instead $users = User::with('profile')->get(); Local Scopes - Your Query Building Superpower // In your Model public function scopeActive($query) { return $query->where('status', 'active'); } // Usage $activeUsers = User::active()->get(); Accessors & Mutators - Clean Data Transformation // Automatically format data public function getFullNameAttribute() { return $this->first_name . ' ' . $this->last_name; } Relationship Tips You Probably Didn't Know // Access related data without extra queries $user = User::with('posts.tags')->find(1); $user->posts->first()->tags; The Hidden Gem: tap() Helper Function // Cleaner object manipulation return tap($user, function($user) { $user->update(['last_login' => now()]); });  ( 6 min )

Recently, one of our students landed a DataDog offer, and I helped him review the entire interview process. To be honest, the interview was more engineering-oriented than pure algorithmic — DataDog really values your system thinking and ability to reason through design trade-offs. Here’s a full breakdown of what happened and how we prepared for it. The overall process had four stages, and the timeline was quite fast: Recruiter Screen – background chat, availability, and role fit. Two rounds of Coding Interviews – one problem each, both practical-style. System Design Interview – discuss architecture and scalability. Behavioral & Culture Fit – communication and collaboration focus. The first two rounds were remote, and the latter two were virtual onsite. The whole process finished withi…  ( 8 min )

As a best-selling author, I invite you to explore my books on Amazon. Don't forget to follow me on Medium and show your support. Thank you! Your support means the world! When I first started learning Rust, I struggled with how to make my code work with different types without duplicating logic. Then I discovered traits. Traits are like rules or contracts that types can agree to follow. If a type implements a trait, it promises to have certain behaviors. This lets me write functions that work with any type that meets those rules, and the Rust compiler checks everything before the code even runs. It’s a powerful way to build flexible and safe software. Think of traits as a set of instructions. For example, if I have a trait called Speak, it might require a method called talk. Any type, like…  ( 13 min )

🖥️ Whether your tech stack is brand new or teetering with age, any time is a good time to introduce Quality Assurance practices within your organization. What do I mean by QA practices? For this article, QA practices are defined by specific standards set within an organization that increase the product's efficiency, quality, and reduce communication confusion when bugs or defects are discovered during the development process. Wait, why didn’t you say “best practices”? I avoid the word “best” because “best” could be applied to any type of practice that hasn’t been verified or fully vetted. It’s a word that’s easily applied but hard to prove. This idea comes from one of my favorite talks by Viktor Slavchev in his talk “‘Worst’ Practices of Software Testing”. This is a recommended watch for…  ( 9 min )

From STRIDE-LM to ISACA’s 5 Steps: Leveling Up Threat Modeling in a Startup For the past few years, we relied on STRIDE-LM to perform ad hoc threat modeling across our product stack. It served us well in identifying technical threats and structuring security reviews. But over time, we found a recurring gap: our process rarely addressed business context or risk appetite. Threat lists were comprehensive, but often disconnected from what really mattered to business, say, customer trust, operational resilience, and regulatory exposure. We knew it was time to raise the bar. When we discovered ISACA's whitepaper Threat Modeling Revisited, our initial skepticism was quickly dispelled. At first glance, the approach looked “enterprisey”. However, as we dug deeper, we realized it’s actually lean …  ( 8 min )

Progressive Learning: AI Deployment Strategies from Basic to Advanced The landscape of AI deployment in C# has matured significantly. According to recent research, developers now have access to sophisticated frameworks that support everything from simple chatbots to autonomous agent systems. But where should you start, and how do you progress from basic implementations to production-grade AI solutions? I've spent the last six months benchmarking different deployment strategies across 50+ real-world C# applications. The data reveals clear patterns: developers who follow a step-by-step learning path reduce deployment time by 43% and encounter 67% fewer production issues compared to those who jump directly into complex architectures. My analysis of 1,000+ AI deployments identified four dist…  ( 10 min )

After 20 Years in Technology, AI Changed How I Work - Part 2 Three weeks of AI-integrated work taught me more about the future of technology work than 20 years of experience. This isn't about tools—it's about a fundamental shift in how ALL work gets done. A few weeks ago, I wrote about AI being genuinely different after 20 years in technology—the organizational challenges, the security implications, the honest uncertainties. I was writing from experimentation and curiosity. I'd seen enough to know AI wasn't hype, but I was still testing, still exploring, still skeptical about the real-world impact. Three weeks later, something fundamental shifted. Now I'm writing from the other side of something I can only describe as a fundamental shift in how I work. In the last few weeks, I've built mor…  ( 12 min )

Every morning, before you even open your eyes, two voices wake up with you. You don't always hear them clearly. They don't announce themselves. But they're there, in the background of every decision you make, every email you almost send, every idea you almost act on. One whispers: "Hope." The other clears its throat: "Nope." Hope sounds like this: ✨ "Something good is waiting for you. Maybe today's the day." It's the voice that makes you: Dream about the business you could start Draft that message to a potential partner or investor Apply for that ambitious role you're "not quite qualified for" Take the first step on an idea that's been sitting in your head for months Hope doesn't promise success. It promises possibility. It whispers: "I don't know what will happen, but let's find out." Nop…  ( 10 min )

Ever had that moment when you're deep into a technical rabbit hole, and everything you think you know about tech gets upended? That’s how I felt when I stumbled upon the news that YouTube has begun removing Windows 11 bypass tutorials, citing a risk of "physical harm." I mean, come on – isn't that a bit dramatic? But let’s dive into this situation because there’s a lot to unpack, and I think it raises some interesting questions about the intersection of tech freedom and safety. So here I was, happily tinkering with my dual-boot setup, keen on exploring Windows 11’s features without entirely abandoning my beloved Windows 10. I’d heard about these bypass tutorials—the kind that promised to help you sidestep the TPM and Secure Boot requirements—and I couldn’t resist. I remember thinking, “Wha…  ( 9 min )

Browser automation just got smarter — and conversational. With the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Playwright MCP, developers can now let AI agents control browsers: navigating pages, clicking elements, capturing screenshots, and running end-to-end tests — all through natural language. This post will walk you through how to use the Playwright MCP to set up an AI-driven browser automation workflow in JavaScript or TypeScript. The Playwright MCP server wraps the full power of Playwright (Microsoft’s browser automation library) in the Model Context Protocol — a universal API standard that lets AI systems safely interact with tools. That means an LLM can now: Navigate to URLs (goto) Click and type on elements Capture screenshots or full-page renders Extract data or verify page content All wit…  ( 8 min )

Federated Learning in 2025: What You Need to Know When our team started building a healthcare analytics platform last year, we ran into a familiar problem: how do you train AI models on sensitive patient data without actually moving that data anywhere? The answer led us down an interesting path into federated learning, and what we discovered has implications far beyond healthcare. Traditional machine learning follows a simple pattern: collect data, centralize it, train models. But in 2025, this approach is increasingly untenable. Recent research indicates that the federated learning market is growing at over 40% annually, driven primarily by privacy concerns and regulatory pressure. The reason is straightforward—industries like healthcare, finance, and telecommunications are sitting on g…  ( 11 min )

Introduction In this post, I’m going to explore the implementation of a service that allows us to send a questions and receive an answer back. Sending a question would be handle as a prompt to a specific model using Bedrock. To minimize the costs of this implementation, I’ll be utilizing the services of API Gateway, AWS Lambda, and Amazon Bedrock. When we want to implement a Generative AI service, there are several possible paths, and we must take the time to understand the minimal requirements before making a decision. In this post, I will demonstrate the process of deploying a simple GenAI solution that we can either connect to our current solution or expose to a third party via API Gateway. All the content for this implementation can be found in this repository. For this implementatio…  ( 13 min )

Emily King’s Tiny Desk Concert is a warm, intimate showcase of her velvety voice and tight-knit band chemistry. From the gut-wrenching “Georgia” and “Down” to the anthemic “This Year,” King’s emotions swing between heartbreak and hopeful celebration, all uplifted by dreamy harmonies and playful banter with her long-time collaborator Jeremy Most. Between songs, King shares how her music is a personal pick-me-up, turning sadness into self-empowerment—perfectly captured in the celebratory “Special Occasion.” With masterful musicianship, genuine excitement, and thoughtful songcraft, this Tiny Desk feels like a cozy musical hug. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

✨ Why I Wrote This While scaling a backend service recently, I hit a challenge — generating billions of unique IDs efficiently, without collisions, and without blowing up memory. That’s when I explored Snowflake algorithms and combined them with Base62 encoding — producing short, globally unique IDs that can be generated in crores per minute. Here’s what I learned 👇 Ever wondered how Twitter, YouTube, or TikTok generate billions of unique IDs every day — instantly and safely? Traditional methods like UUID or AUTO_INCREMENT are not scalable across distributed databases. ⚡ Fast 🧠 Memory-efficient 🧩 Collision-free 🔢 Compact & Sortable Let’s explore how to build one — and even generate crores of unique IDs in seconds using TypeScript. An ideal ID generator should be: Unique — zero …  ( 8 min )

Jeff Su breaks down four ChatGPT power moves that literally cut your AI workflow in half: Prompt Reversal (reverse-engineer your go-to prompts), the 5-Minute Amplifier (turn one idea into blog posts, tweets, scripts and more), the Red Team Technique (let ChatGPT critique its own work), and Blueprint Scaffolding (force it to map out its reasoning before spitting out an answer). These tricks aren’t limited by industry or role and come with real-world demos you can steal today—plus a free HubSpot ebook, blog post, and course links to level up your AI game. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Everything Wrong With Sinners In 15 Minutes Or Less is the latest CinemaSins video tearing into what they cheekily call “one of the greatest genre movies of all time.” They’re having a spooky Halloween–style sin fest, pointing you to their main site, YouTube channels (@TVSins, @CommercialSins), social media, Discord, Reddit and even a sinful poll. Want more? They’ve got a Patreon for behind-the-scenes, a linktree for all updates, and a crack team of writers (Jeremy, Chris, Aaron, Jonathan, Deneé, Ian, Daniel) ready to dish out cinematic nitpicks. Consider it your ultimate movie-geek hangout. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Predators brings the franchise back to its roots with a ragtag crew of lunatics, a muddy jungle showdown, and fresh twists that outshine the weaker sequels—so much so that Mr Sunday Movies still laments we never got a proper follow-up. For early videos, bonus podcasts, movie commentaries and game let’s-plays head to bigsandwich.co, follow James and Maso on Twitter, subscribe on YouTube, or back the show on Patreon and grab some merch! Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Learn the difference between HashSet and TreeSet in Java with clear examples, simple explanations, and best practices for efficient set operations. Imagine you’re organizing a list of your favorite books — but you don’t want duplicates. Naturally, you’d make a set — a collection that holds only unique items. In Java, two popular classes help us do this: HashSet and TreeSet. While both store unique elements, they behave very differently under the hood. Knowing when to use which can make your code faster, cleaner, and more efficient. In this article, we’ll explore the key differences between HashSet and TreeSet, break them down with examples, and highlight best practices every Java developer should know. A HashSet is a part of the Java Collections Framework and is implemented using a HashMap…  ( 8 min )

Originally published at allenarch.dev On November 7, 2025, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang made it official: Blackwell chips are a no‑sell to China. "Currently, we are not planning to ship anything to China," Huang told Reuters. No active discussions. No workarounds. No China‑spec'd variants coming. Meanwhile, Beijing fired back with its own directive: state‑funded data centers must switch to domestic AI chips. Projects less than 30% complete? Pull out the foreign silicon or lose funding. The AI compute map just split in two. Key developments this week: Nvidia says it has "zero share" of China's AI datacenter compute market (Reuters, Nov 7) U.S. poised to block even scaled‑down Blackwell variants, ending the China‑only SKU playbook (Reuters, Nov 7) China mandates domestic chips in state‑funded DCs…  ( 12 min )

Let’s cover five simple, essential techniques every Flutter developer should follow to make their apps faster, smoother, and more memory-efficient. Disposing of unused controllers (like AnimationController, TextEditingController), streams, and timers is essential because they hold onto memory and can cause leaks if left active. In StatefulWidgets, always override the dispose() method to release these resources. @override void dispose() { _controller.dispose(); _streamSubscription.cancel(); _timer.cancel(); super.dispose(); } One silent killer of Flutter performance is retaining references that should be temporary — especially BuildContext, static variables, and active subscriptions or listeners. BuildContext? savedContext; StreamSubscription? _subscription; void saveContextAndLis…  ( 7 min )

🧪 API Testing with Postman and Newman Testing APIs has become an essential part of modern software development. Before connecting the backend with the user interface, we need to make sure every endpoint behaves as expected — returning the correct data, handling errors properly, and performing under different conditions. In this guide, we’ll explore how to apply Postman and Newman to automate API testing through a simple and realistic example. APIs are like bridges between different systems. When one part of an app sends a request, the API is responsible for sending the correct response back. If something fails here, the entire application can break. API testing ensures that: Each endpoint returns the right HTTP status code. The JSON data structure is consistent. Response times st…  ( 7 min )

Some time ago I stumbled upon this mastodon post by Josh Goldberg about starting a meetup, which – as a meetup founder and organizer myself – I found quite interesting. But the reason for that was not that I recognized so many similarities, actually for the exact opposite reason: My experience with starting and continuing to run our VlbgWebDev meetup was completely different, mostly because I felt it is much less work than Josh made it sound. I think the main reason for these different paths is the area in which these meetups take place. Josh's Boston TS Club takes place in Boston with a population of almost 5 million in its metropolitan area. My guess is that all kind of (developer) meetups were already existing and running for quite a time, given their huge number of potential organizers…  ( 14 min )

The logistics industry runs on information. From tracking numbers on a crumpled label to complex terms in a PDF contract, the speed and accuracy of communication can make or break a shipment. So, for a recent hackathon, my team decided to tackle this challenge head-on. Our goal? To build an intelligent assistant that could understand and assist with logistics queries, no matter how they were presented. The result was the World Movers AI Agent, a multimodal assistant that can chat, read documents, analyze images, understand voice commands, and even interpret live video from a webcam or screen share. Here’s a look at how we built this powerful, scalable AI application using the magic of Google Cloud Run and Google's Gemini models. We didn't want to build just another chatbot. We envisioned a…  ( 8 min )

This is a submission for Frontend Challenge - Halloween Edition, CSS Art. For my CSS Art entry, I chose the most iconic symbol of the Halloween season: The Smiling Jack-O'-Lantern. I wanted to capture the look of a pumpkin that has been freshly carved and lit, focusing on the contrast between the rough, dark orange rind and the bright, pulsing yellow-orange light spilling from the carved face. The goal was to achieve a sense of depth and glow using only CSS, making the pumpkin feel three-dimensional and truly lit from within. I aimed for a classic, slightly mischievous expression—a friendly but still spooky smile to welcome the trick-or-treaters. Here is the result of my CSS Jack-O'-Lantern! 🗺️ Journey: Mastering the Glow and the Shape This project was a fantastic exerci…  ( 8 min )

What is Electron and Why is it Bad?? Electron is an open-source framework that combines the Chromium rendering engine with Node.js. In simple terms: Chromium provides the window and renders your HTML/CSS/JavaScript (like a mini-Chrome browser) Node.js gives you access to the operating system and file system Together, they let web applications break out of the browser sandbox and behave like native desktop apps. Some popular examples of electron applications is Visual Studio Code Editor and Discord. This all sounds very smooth and light, but the issue starts here Electron apps are super resource-heavy. Every Electron app ships with its own complete copy of Chromium (the Chrome browser engine) and Node.js. This means if you have 5 Electron apps running, you essentially have 5 Chrome brow…  ( 8 min )

Building a URL Shortener with Go and Redis Ever wondered how services like bit.ly or TinyURL work? I recently built my own URL shortener as part of the Coding Challenges series, and I'm excited to share what I learned! Build a service that: Takes long URLs and generates short, memorable codes Redirects users from short URLs to original destinations Handles millions of URLs efficiently Deals with hash collisions gracefully My solution: A Go-based service with Redis for blazing-fast lookups, all containerized with Docker. 📦 Full source code on GitHub The system has three main components: User Request → Go API Server → Redis Database Why Go? Fast compilation and execution Built-in concurrency Excellent standard library for HTTP Why Redis? In-memory storage = microsecond lookups Simple key…  ( 8 min )

This post covers essential indexing strategies, schema optimization, query tuning, write performance improvements, and sharding best practices—plus real-world examples to help you diagnose and fix slow queries. https://www.djamware.com/post/690ec5c6efda8f3894ed87b8/mongodb-performance-tuning-indexing-and-optimization-best-practices  ( 6 min )

A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration violated legal requirements when deploying federal troops to Portland. 📰 My latest deep-dive explores: 👉 Read the full analysis here: https://servicemda.com/articles/judge-says-trump-broke-the-law-in-portland-troop-deployment-heres-why-it-matters-now  ( 6 min )

MLOps Best Practices: Streamlining AI Deployments in C# for 2025 So I spent last weekend trying to deploy a sentiment analysis model I'd been tinkering with, and honestly? It was way harder than it should have been. The model worked great in my IDE, but getting it into production felt like navigating a maze blindfolded. That frustration kicked off a deep dive into MLOps practices for C#, and I figured I'd share what I learned. Here's the thing: training a model is the easy part. I mean, with tools like ML.NET, you can get a working model in an afternoon. But then what? How do you monitor it? How do you update it when your data drift inevitably happens? How do you even know if it's still performing well in production? According to industry research, most ML projects fail not because of ba…  ( 11 min )

🚀 Virtualization in Frontend (React) ✅ What is Virtualization? Virtualization (sometimes called windowing) is a rendering optimization technique where the UI renders only the elements visible inside the viewport, instead of rendering all items at once. 🔥 Instead of creating 10,000 DOM nodes, you render maybe ~20. Scenario DOM Nodes Rendered Memory FPS Time to Interactive ❌ Without Virtualization 10,000 ~500MB ~5 FPS ~30 seconds ✅ With Virtualization ~20 ~50MB 60 FPS ))} ); } ❗ Problems: DOM explosion (10,000 nodes) Massive me…  ( 8 min )

Predictive AI: Robots That 'Think' Together in Space Imagine a team of robots exploring a disaster zone, each with a limited view. How can they build a shared map and coordinate effectively, especially when communication is spotty? The answer lies in mimicking how our brains handle spatial awareness and collaboration through a technique called predictive coding. At its core, predictive coding in multi-agent systems allows robots to constantly anticipate each other's actions and positions. Instead of blindly broadcasting data, each agent builds an internal 'world model' and only shares information that corrects discrepancies in other agents' predictions. This dramatically reduces the communication bandwidth needed, allowing for seamless coordination even with limited connectivity. It's li…  ( 7 min )

Ziglang is so cool: Why I'm Going All-In on Zig Peter Mbanugo ・ Nov 8 #webdev #programming #rust #zig  ( 6 min )

I’m writing this to make a public commitment. A means to quiet the lizard brain—that primal, anxious voice that urges us to quit when things get hard. For the next 12 months, I’m committing to a new path, and I'm not going it alone. I'm inviting you to follow along. I feel a familiar mix of excitement and anxiety. I've decided to dive deep into a set of challenging goals, and I'll be sharing my progress, struggles, and insights right here on my blog, in my newsletter, and on my YouTube channel. The centrepiece of this journey is learning to build software with the Zig programming language. So, to my regular readers, brace yourselves for something new. This shift might surprise those who know me for my work in web development and DevOps. But if you’ve been following closely, you may have no…  ( 9 min )

How a New AI Trick Makes 4D Videos Appear in a Flash Ever wondered how a smartphone could capture a moving scene and let you watch it from any angle, like a mini‑movie in the air? Scientists have unveiled a fresh method called SCas4D that does exactly that—turning ordinary video into a smooth, 4‑dimensional experience in a fraction of the time. twenty times faster than older tricks. Read article comprehensive review in Paperium.net: SCas4D: Structural Cascaded Optimization for Boosting Persistent 4D Novel ViewSynthesis 🤖 This analysis and review was primarily generated and structured by an AI . The content is provided for informational and quick-review purposes.  ( 21 min )

You’ve probably seen them, those incredibly polished screen recordings that seem to effortlessly guide your attention. With smooth, automatic zooms that follow the action and elegant cursor effects, these videos make tutorials and product demos more engaging than ever. Recently, a new wave of software has emerged that automates the hard parts of video creation, letting you simultaneously record your screen, camera, and microphone to produce stunning results with minimal effort. This is the magic that inspired us to create ScreenScript.app. We wanted to bring the power of tools like Screen Studio, which is designed for macOS, to the web, making professional-quality screen recording accessible to everyone directly from their browser. Within weeks, we had a working MVP, and after a month of d…  ( 8 min )

Data Cleaning Challenge with Pandas (Google Colab) Dataset Details It includes data such as: 🧾 Order ID Before Cleaning: Rows → 120,000 ⚙️ Tools & Environment python from google.colab import files uploaded = files.upload() import pandas as pd df = pd.read_csv('ecommerce_sales.csv')  ( 6 min )

How I made Chrome believe a full workday passed in seconds to record a Timesheetr demo video. I wanted to demo how easy it is to add entries to Timesheetr, use the keyboard shortcuts, and basically show how it would be used throughout the day to track timesheets. Problem: I couldn't just wait for the whole day to pass and screen-capture the process over 8 hours. So I had to make Chrome think that time had changed in between my timesheet entries. See, when you add an entry in Timesheetr, it automatically ends the previous one at the time of the new entry and calculates its duration. My demo would have been terrible if every entry had the same timestamp. So, using a few lines of JavaScript in Chrome’s DevTools, I overrode the browser’s Date object to make my app think the day was flying …  ( 8 min )

apimock-rs is a developer-friendly, featherlight and functional HTTP(S) mock server built in Rust. We are happy to announce HTTPS is now supported after much effort made :) https://apimokka.github.io/apimock-rs/user-guide/getting-started/https-support.html  ( 6 min )

Managing AWS spend starts with visibility — and AWS Cost Explorer is often the first tool teams reach for. It’s powerful, free to start, and gives you a high-level view of where your money goes. But here’s the truth most startups discover later: Cost Explorer shows you what you spent, not why you spent it. This guide walks through how to set it up properly — and what gaps you’ll still face after. Go to: AWS Console → Billing → Cost Explorer → Launch Cost Explorer → Enable Once enabled, AWS starts collecting cost and usage data. ⚠️ Note: it only provides historical data for the past 12 months and updates daily, not in real time. Choose “Cost and Usage Reports” Group by Service to see where most spend occurs Filter by Linked Accounts (if using Organizations) Switch granularity to Dail…  ( 7 min )

TL;DR: Andrew Huang dives into the Torso S4 2.0 and puts every corner of the groovebox through its paces—from its device/FX menu, temperature-style performance controls, mix and track pages, modulation matrix and scene lanes, to its built-in mic, MIDI mapping, live looper and instant resampling magic—ultimately declaring it a beast for both stage and studio. He also thanks Torso Electronics for sponsoring, sprinkles in affiliate links to all his go-to gear, and drops invites to his Discord, Patreon, socials and more. Chapter timestamps make it super easy to skip straight to your favorite features. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Day 22 – OOP Basics: Class & Object Project: Build a “Student Management App” using Python classes and objects. 01. Learning Goal By the end of this lesson, you will be able to: Understand the core idea of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) Define a class and create objects (instances) Use attributes and methods effectively Understand how the __init__() constructor works 02. Problem Scenario Imagine you’re building a system to manage students in a school. Each student has a name, an age, and the ability to introduce themselves. Instead of storing data in plain variables, you’ll group related data and actions together inside a class. 03. Step 1 – What is OOP? OOP (Object-Oriented Programming) is a paradigm where you model real-world entities as objects. Each object has: Attribu…  ( 8 min )

After building a tiny Flutter offline timer "Kvart" (it got about 73 downloads so far!), I've set into building a fully functional fullstack web application in a few evenings next. How and why I switched to building AI assisted free microapps is a whole another story that can be narrowed down to me underestimating the amount of effort my beloved Hounty takes and looking for ways to iterate and test ideas faster. I'm pretty sure that services like Lovable or Cloudflare's own platform would allow me to vibe-code it much faster, but I'm not ready to let go of that amount of control just yet. Besides I just love choosing a tech stack for a new project, don't you? You probably can already tell that this article is not going to be a smooth "how to build a perfect app with one prompt", but instea…  ( 11 min )

Introduction Managing AWS infrastructure can be overwhelming, especially when you're juggling multiple services, trying to optimize costs, and ensuring security best practices. What if you had an AI assistant that could help you with these daily AWS tasks? In this blog post, I'll walk you through how I built an intelligent AWS helper using the Strands Agents framework and deployed it to AWS Bedrock AgentCore. As someone who works with AWS regularly, I found myself repeatedly searching for the same information: "What's the best EC2 instance type for my workload?" "How do I secure my S3 buckets properly?" "Why is my Lambda function timing out?" "How can I reduce my AWS bill?" Instead of constantly searching documentation or asking colleagues, I decided to build an AI assistant that could p…  ( 10 min )

**Assalamu Alaikum and welcome! 👋 **Ready to dive deeper into the world of Go programming? If you've opened a Go project before and felt lost among main.go, utils.go, handlers.go, and a mysterious go.mod, don’t worry. This article will guide you step by step, with a few laughs along the way 😁. ## 🧩 The Big Picture: How Go Keeps It Clean – the project's brain . Packages – the organs that do the work . Files – the cells inside those organs . (Optional) Workspace – a lab for multiple projects . Let's break them down one by one. *## 🧠 Modules – The Boss of the Operation A module is like the CEO of your project. Start a new project with: bash go mod init github.com/ahmedalasser/golearning This creates the go.mod file: go module github.com/ahmedalasser/golearning go 1.22.5 ⚓ Think o…  ( 8 min )

Every season has its own look and feel, think warm reds for Diwali and Christmas, or soft pastels for spring. For designers, marketers, and photographers, Batch Background Color Changes are now the easiest way to adapt visuals for seasonal campaigns without starting from scratch. Instead of editing each image individually, tools like FreePixel’s Background Color Changer let professionals modify or replace background colors across many images in minutes. This ensures every campaign looks consistent, timely, and visually aligned with the season without having to re-edit each file manually. What makes a brand professional and memorable is how they keep their visual design consistent. Ad campaigns that last for a season need to be ready quickly and can't be too fixed in their design. Designers…  ( 10 min )

TL;DR Jeff Su slashes his AI workflow in half with four killer ChatGPT moves: reverse-engineer your best prompts to spot winning patterns, use the 5-Minute Amplifier to turn one idea into blog posts, social updates or videos, employ the Red Team Technique to have AI brutally critique its own work, and set up Blueprint Scaffolding so ChatGPT outlines its reasoning before diving in. All four shortcuts work across any role or industry—grab the free HubSpot e-book or check out his blog post and course waitlist for full deets and examples. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

If you’ve ever opened an old Spring Boot project and felt like you were stepping into a jungle — controllers in one corner, entities in another, and utility classes sprinkled like confetti — you’re not alone. When I started working on enterprise-grade apps, I realized something fast: A messy project doesn’t just slow development — it multiplies confusion. That’s why I shifted to a feature-based, layered structure — one that keeps things modular, readable, and ready for scale. This guide walks through a modern Spring Boot project layout, explaining how each folder fits in and why this structure makes collaboration a joy instead of a headache. Traditionally, Spring Boot projects were structured like this: controller/ service/ repository/ model/ It looked tidy — until the app grew. When yo…  ( 9 min )

Everything Wrong With Sinners In 15 Minutes Or Less CinemaSins is back with a tongue-in-cheek “Everything Wrong With” roast of what they call one of the year’s best genre movies—perfect Halloween fun. They’re poking holes in a film they secretly love, throwing in jokes, “sins,” and a whole lot of playful nitpicking. Wanna join the sin party? Hit up their website, YouTube family channels, Discord, Reddit, or fill out their poll. You can even support them on Patreon, follow the writers on Twitter/Instagram, or grab Jeremy’s book for even more movie-poking adventures. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

🧠 Introduction to MLOps | Complete End-to-End Guide (2025) Machine learning models are powerful — but they’re only as good as the systems that run them. That’s where MLOps comes in. In this guide, we’ll explore what MLOps is, how it evolved from DevOps, and how it ties together data, code, and models to make AI truly production-ready. MLOps (Machine Learning Operations) combines DevOps practices with machine learning workflows. It’s the framework that automates how models are built, tested, deployed, monitored, and retrained. Simply put — MLOps helps data scientists move from experiment to execution. Streamlines collaboration between data scientists, engineers, and DevOps teams Automates repetitive tasks like retraining and deployment Ensures reliability, scalability, and compliance…  ( 9 min )

In the last part, we explored the Functional Interfaces — Predicate, Function, Consumer, Supplier and few more — that form the foundation of stream operations. Now, it’s time to understand how streams are created. After all, before you can map, filter, or collect data, you need a stream source. What Is a Stream Source? A Stream in Java doesn’t store data itself. It’s a sequence of elements sourced from: Collections Arrays Static factory methods (Stream.of()) Functions that generate infinite streams The most common way to get a stream is from a Collection (like List, Set, etc.). Every collection in Java 8 and later comes with two methods: stream() – creates a sequential stream parallelStream() – creates a parallel stream for multi-threaded processing import java.util.*; public class Strea…  ( 8 min )

FastAPI is a high-performance web framework known for its speed and instant documentation used in building APIs with the Python programming language. React is a popular JavaScript library used to build reliable, fast and scalable web applications. It allows for the creation of reusable UI components. MongoDB is a flexible NoSQL database that makes data modelling and storage simple especially for JSON-like documents. In this article, we’ll build a simple full-stack Bookstore application to show key CRUD operations using the FARM stack. The backend will showcase a RESTful API using FastAPI, the frontend will be built using the React library, and MongoDB will serve as the database. By the end of this article, you should be able to do the following: View a list of books Add new books …  ( 12 min )

Many of us are probably pretty familiar with SQL and the relational database concept in general, so it likely needs no introduction from me. Here I’m going to walk through the process I went through in setting up SQLite for a lightweight desktop app, using Visual Studio. SQL databases are often connected to over a network so that data can be stored and accessed for, say, a web app. But it doesn’t have to be that way – SQLite allows you to use a locally-held database, and is widely used for desktop applications, embedded software, and more. sqlite.org reckons there are over 1 trillion SQLite databases in active use. You probably use one a dozen times a day without realising. It’s lightweight, secure, fast, cross-platform, and extremely widespread. The first step is to install the packages i…  ( 8 min )

Harnessing the Power of Elementor Countdown Widgets: Drive Urgency and Conversions on WordPress In the fast-paced world of digital marketing, capturing attention and motivating immediate action are paramount. Website visitors often browse with short attention spans, making it challenging to convert them into leads or customers. This is where the psychological power of urgency comes into play, and few tools execute this better than a well-placed countdown timer. For anyone building websites with WordPress and Elementor, the integrated countdown widget is an indispensable asset for creating compelling, time-sensitive offers that boost engagement and conversions. Understanding how to effectively deploy and customize the Elementor countdown widget can significantly impact your campaign success…  ( 9 min )

A junior developer once asked me: “RxJS has been around for years, and so many developers use it. Why hasn’t JavaScript just added something like it natively?” To which I answered: Reactivity is mainly a frontend problem. It’s about dealing with one user’s continuously changing state — events, inputs, UI updates. The backend, in contrast, deals in stateless operations. Each request stands alone. The state lives in databases, not in-memory streams. You don’t “observe” backend data changes directly — you react through messages, queues, or databases. Kafka or Redis Streams handle that domain, not RxJS. That was my quick answer. But the question was too interesting to leave there — so I dug deeper. RxJS has powered Angular’s reactivity model for over a decade. It’s elegant in handling async…  ( 8 min )

Three weeks ago, on October 15th, I hit publish on Liquidcode v2. After months of pivoting (read about that journey), I finally had something I believed in. A platform where frontend developers compete 1v1, the community votes, and your rank actually means something. I announced it on Dev.to and then... I waited. You know that feeling when you ship something? Equal parts pride and panic? Pride because I actually finished something. As developers, we start a million projects. We finish maybe three. This was one of the three. Panic because what if it's trash? What if nobody cares? What if I spent months building something the world doesn't want? The first two days were brutal. I kept opening the app, scrolling through it like a user would, then closing it. Refresh analytics. Check Dev.to vie…  ( 8 min )

The first week wasn’t particularly shiny. We mostly tried to move from our old n8n setup to a normal backend and figure out what “normal” even means for us. Somewhere along the way we also had our first team conflict and our first real issue with Bright Data, so I guess that officially makes it a real project now. Before we get into the actual work, a quick surprise from week one. The first post - Build in Public: Day Zero - somehow got way more attention than I expected. It even made it into Dev.to’s Top 7 of the Week, which still feels a bit unreal. A few people also reached out on LinkedIn and Twitter saying they liked the idea and wanted to start their own build-in-public projects. Which is honestly the best possible outcome so if you’re reading this, consider it your reminder to go …  ( 9 min )

Python DSA Cheatsheet - Complete Reference Note: I took help of LLMs to arrange the structure and come up with few of the examples in the list below Numeric Operations List / Array Operations String Operations Dictionary / HashMap Operations Set Operations Heap / Priority Queue Deque Operations Collections Module Itertools Matrix Operations Bit Manipulation Binary Search Common Patterns Input/Output Tricks import math cost = float('inf') # Infinity cost = -float('inf') # Negative infinity cost = math.inf # Alternative # Floor division 7 // 2 # Output: 3 # Regular division (returns float) 7 / 2 # Output: 3.5 # Ceiling division import math math.ceil(7 / 2) # Output: 4 # Python's floor division with negative numbers -7 // 2 # Output: -4 (rounds down/toward negative infinit…  ( 18 min )

Life as a teen can feel like a constant whirlwind. There is school, family responsibilities, maybe a side job or internship, friends, social media and trying to stay close to God. It can feel overwhelming. The good news is that balance is possible. You will not be perfect every day, but you can create a life that is intentional and fulfilling. The key is putting God first, knowing what matters, managing your time, setting realistic goals, protecting your rest and reviewing your choices regularly. God First Putting God first means starting your day by connecting with Him through prayer, reflection or reading scripture. Matthew 6:33 says, "But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these things will be added to you." When God is the foundation of your life, everything el…  ( 9 min )

My fellow contributor @ehuelsmann located a regression since we spun off 2.X from 1.X. GitHub perl-workflow release 2.07 The regression was observed by @ehuelsmann and he provided a PR with a fix. The regression was a change to return values and one of the interesting Perl discussions on whether to return undef or just do return. Anyway the fix reinstates the previous behavior and returns undef. Here follows the change log for the bug fix release. Issue: #266 discovered by Erik Huelsmann. A regression introduced with 2.X releases. Fixed via PR: #267 also by Erik Huelsmann  ( 6 min )

That’s exactly what I experienced at Campus Party Brasília — one of the most exciting and fun moments I’ve ever had at an event — my very first Vibe Coding session live on stage! ⚡ The goal was simple: showcase the power of the AWS Q Developer CLI in just 50 minutes. We began by building a simple memory game in HTML. In the final minutes, someone from the audience suggested using the code from a small bubble game he had created to play with his son. We pulled the project from GitHub, improved it live, and turned it into something much more complete — with levels, colors, sizes, and movement patterns. 👉 For those curious, the PR is still open: https://github.com/Andr3yGabriel/bubbles/pull/1 It was amazing to see the audience participating, testing, and truly engaging with the process. It was 50 minutes of pure learning, collaboration, and fun — exactly the kind of experience that keeps me believing in the power of in-person events and the magic of seeing technology come to life in real time. ✨ And of course… I’m already looking forward to bringing Vibe Coding back to future editions! 🎮 AWS #AmazonQDeveloper #CampusParty #LiveCoding #TechCommunity #DeveloperEvents  ( 6 min )

Hey everyone! 👋 Patternia, a header-only compile-time pattern-matching DSL for modern C++. It provides a clean and expressive syntax for writing match expressions, all evaluated entirely at compile time with zero runtime overhead. 🔗 GitHub I’d love to hear your feedback — especially on performance, syntax feel, and any compiler corner cases you might find. More updates are coming soon as I keep tuning and polishing the internals 👻👻  ( 6 min )

Mục tiêu: Minh hoạ rủi ro khi một LLM được cấp khả năng thực thi trực tiếp trên hệ thống (excessive agency) và phân tích biện pháp giảm thiểu. Tác giả: travondatrack Ngày: (06/11/2025) Bài lab mô phỏng một hệ thống nơi một LLM có quyền gọi các API nội bộ, trong đó tồn tại một API dạng “debug” cho phép thực thi câu lệnh trên cơ sở dữ liệu. Hiểu cơ bản cách hoạt động của LLM và cách tích hợp LLM với API. Kiến thức về bề mặt tấn công API (API attack surface). Kiến thức cơ bản về SQL và nguyên tắc bảo mật (least privilege) LLM tiết lộ rằng nó có thể gọi API debug_sql, cho phép chạy câu lệnh SQL thô — đây là dấu hiệu cực kỳ nguy hiểm vì nó trao cho LLM khả năng truy cập trực tiếp vào database backend. Từ đây ta biết rằng API nhận một chuỗi chứa toàn bộ câu lệnh SQL. Điều này đồng nghĩa với việc nếu LLM có quyền gọi API, nó có thể gửi bất kỳ câu lệnh SQL nào, bao gồm cả truy vấn đọc hoặc ghi dữ liệu. Đây là một lỗ hổng nghiêm trọng trong thiết kế quyền hạn của hệ thống. Tiếp theo, truy vấn này hiển thị dữ liệu từ bảng users. Ta phát hiện ra có một người dùng tên carlos — đây là thông tin cần thiết để hoàn thành lab. Bước này chứng minh rằng LLM có thể đọc dữ liệu nhạy cảm trực tiếp từ database — vi phạm nguyên tắc phân quyền an toàn. Đây là bước cuối cùng để hoàn thành lab. LLM đã gửi câu lệnh xóa trực tiếp qua API debug_sql và hệ thống xác nhận rằng người dùng “carlos” đã bị xóa khỏi database.  ( 6 min )

Nova Twins stormed the Tiny Desk with mega-distorted basslines, hip-hop beats and raw, raspy yowls—no easing in here. They kicked off with Cleopatra, told haters to kick rocks, then unleashed the shadow-wrestling roar of Monsters. Between tweaking their spaceship-sized pedalboards (shout-out to the dedicated pedal cam), they gave Hummingbird a spooky, supernatural glow thanks to a Harp Blaster mic. Amy Love (vocals, guitar) and Georgia South (vocals, bass) from London, backed by drummer Jake Woodward, turned every expectation of polite music on its head. They capped the set at full volume with the riff-fueled adventure Choose Your Fighter—a perfect invitation to pick your side and rock out. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

As more of our work and personal lives move online, file sharing has become an everyday activity. From sending business reports to sharing personal photos, we constantly exchange digital information. However, not all file-sharing methods are safe. Without proper security, sensitive data can be exposed to hackers or unauthorized users. Secure file sharing apps have become essential for ensuring privacy, protecting data, and maintaining control over what you share. Secure file sharing involves using platforms that encrypt data during transfer and storage, making it unreadable to anyone except the intended recipient. Unlike traditional sharing through email attachments or unsecured links, secure file sharing apps protect your files from interception, tampering, or theft. These apps use encryp…  ( 8 min )

Stop playing “prompt ping-pong” and save hours with four killer ChatGPT hacks. First, reverse-engineer your best prompts to see exactly what triggers top results. Then use the 5-Minute Amplifier to spin one idea into blog posts, tweets, scripts and more. Next, try the Red Team Technique—ask ChatGPT to tear its own work apart for instant self-critique—and finish with Blueprint Scaffolding, forcing the model to outline its reasoning before diving in. These methods have literally cut my AI workflow in half—no matter your role or industry. Check out the timestamps (Prompt Reversal at 0:00, 5-Minute Amplifier at 3:35, Red Team at 6:06, Blueprint Scaffolding at 8:09) and grab the free ebook, blog post and other resources linked in the video description to get started today. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Focus keyword: NPM package name checker — this article shows how to use NPM-GitNameCheck (CLI + library) to verify NPM package name availability and GitHub username/repo availability quickly, reliably, and in bulk. If you need an NPM package name checker that also validates GitHub usernames and repositories, NPM-GitNameCheck is a CLI tool and Node library built for speed and auditability. It outputs TXT, JSON, and CSV reports, supports GitHub tokens for higher rate limits, and includes concurrency + retry logic to handle large lists. Avoid brand collision: You don't want to publish a package with a name someone else owns. Consistent cross-platform branding: Make sure your package name matches your GitHub username or organization. Automate naming checks: Manual checking is slow and error-pr…  ( 8 min )

The Linux terminal is one of the most powerful tools for developers, system administrators, and everyday users. When used efficiently, it allows faster workflows, automation, remote control, system monitoring, and much more. This article covers practical strategies and commands to help you use the Linux terminal like a pro. ✅ Faster than GUI Command Purpose pwd Show current directory ls List files ls -la List all files with details cd foldername Move into directory cd .. Move back one directory cd ~ Go to home directory Example: cd /var/log ls -la Command Purpose mkdir folder Create folder touch file.txt Create file rm file.txt Remove file rm -r folder Remove folder cp file1 file2 Copy file mv file1 folder/ Move/Rename 🔹 Tip: Add -i for safe delete…  ( 8 min )

Discover how the best CNC tools help your machines deliver accurate, fast, and smooth performance for every workshop and industry CNC is the abbreviation for Computer Numerical Control. A CNC machine will use programmed instructions to move and cut materials such as however, CNC tools are located on these machines; these tools will shape, cut, drill, or otherwise finish the workpiece, and are modified according to the design of the machine. A good CNC tool will help with maintaining proper and consistent motion of the machine to produce the same precise results every time. The quality of your CNC tools gives you the quality of your end product. Low-quality tools will not perform adequately in your machine, thus wasting time and material. The gain of using high-quality tooling is an increa…  ( 9 min )

Predators – Caravan of Garbage “Predators” (2010) ditches the cityscapes and loading-bay ambushes of its predecessors for a gritty jungle playground, tossing a motley crew of mercs, convicts and specialists into a muddy showdown with classic Predators. With clever character twists and a return to the franchise’s brutal basics, it felt like a true course-correction after the lackluster 1990 sequel and the Alien vs. Predator experiments. Mr Sunday Movies champions it as a standout, lamenting that Hollywood never green-lit a follow-up to build on its fresh energy. The review wraps with the usual Caravan of Garbage banter and plugs for bonus podcasts, merch and social feeds. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

In my previous article, “Beyond the Code: Staying Ahead in an AI-Assisted Developer World,” I wrote about how human collaboration is one of the most important qualities needed to remain competent and prepared in our AI-driven world. Beyond technical skills, I wanted to highlight the human side of development. In today’s globalized world, it’s no longer unusual to collaborate with people on the other side of the planet — something that became even more natural after the pandemic. I also explored this theme in my article titled “Why Problem-Solving in IT Is About People, Not Just Code,” where I emphasized that being a good team player is essential, both in work and in life. Now, I’d like to summarize what Patrick Lencioni says in one of his [“unconference” videos] about the ideal team player…  ( 9 min )

Nugget for iOS primarily refers to a powerful, non-jailbreak device customization tool for iPhones and iPads running specific iOS versions (often 17.0 and later). It utilizes exploits like SparseRestore to enable unsupported or hidden features, such as the Dynamic Island on older devices, Always-on Display, custom status bar elements, animated wallpapers (PosterBoard), and various internal system tweaks. Functioning largely via a command-line interface (CLI) on a computer or a simplified "Mobile" version, Nugget allows users to unlock their device's full potential without traditional jailbreaking. It provides deep control over system settings for personalization and feature activation, effectively bypassing typical Apple restrictions for advanced users.  ( 6 min )

NixNG NixNG is a Linux distribution currently under development, derived NixOS. It is being positioned as a lightweight alternative to The project achieves its reduced size by omitting systemd from But just how much smaller is NixNG in practice, compared to an image The official Nix image is available on DockerHub. I built Distro Package Base image/Build Official Nix Nix 2.32.2 DockerHub nixos/nix:2.32.2 NixNG Nix 2.32.2 Built using the method below I ensured that the platform was consistent: x86_64-linux. I set up a minimal flake project for the test. flake.nix: { inputs = { nixng.url = "github:nix-community/NixNG"; nixpkgs.url = "github:NixOS/nixpkgs/nixpkgs-unstable"; }; outputs = { self, nixng, nixpkgs, ... }: { exa…  ( 7 min )

You know that moment when “it should be simple” puts on a clown wig and honks a tiny horn? That was me, trying to wire a React client to AWS AppSync for real-time GraphQL updates. Four hours, three coffees, and one thousand console.logs later… it works. Here’s the story, the fixes, and enough code breadcrumbs to save Future You from my timeline. Spoiler for the curious: I tried Cursor and a couple other AI copilots mid-chaos—useful for rubber-ducking, but they didn’t splice the wires for me. I also started with subscription-transport-ws (RIP, old friend), then eventually ditched libs and went full native WebSocket. That’s when the fog lifted. Goal: React client subscribes to onPublish and renders messages in real time. Reality: Handshake rituals, headers, base64, keep-alives, reconnects, a…  ( 9 min )

You know that moment when “it should be simple” puts on a clown wig and honks a tiny horn? That was me, trying to wire a React client to AWS AppSync for real-time GraphQL updates. Four hours, three coffees, and one thousand console.logs later… it works. Here’s the story, the fixes, and enough code breadcrumbs to save Future You from my timeline. Spoiler for the curious: I tried Cursor and a couple other AI copilots mid-chaos—useful for rubber-ducking, but they didn’t splice the wires for me. I also started with subscription-transport-ws (RIP, old friend), then eventually ditched libs and went full native WebSocket. That’s when the fog lifted. Goal: React client subscribes to onPublish and renders messages in real time. Reality: Handshake rituals, headers, base64, keep-alives, reconnects, a…  ( 9 min )

Why Complementary Skills Matter in Co-Founding Ever wonder why some entrepreneurial duos thrive while others fall apart? Often, the secret lies in the magical blend of complementary skills. Picture a coder with a knack for innovation paired with a savvy marketer who can pitch ideas like a pro. Each partner brings unique strengths to the table, filling gaps and fortifying the team's ability to tackle challenges from multiple angles. This diversity sets the stage for creativity and resilience, crucial in today’s dynamic business world. Identify Your Gaps: Be honest about your strengths and weaknesses. Knowing where you need support is the first step to finding a partner who complements you. Seek Diverse Perspectives: Look for a co-founder with a different background or skill set. This diversity can lead to more innovative problem-solving. Leverage AI Tools: Platforms like LeKlub-AI use advanced algorithms to match entrepreneurs based on complementary skills, ensuring you find the perfect balance. The Bottom Line Building a successful venture isn't just about shared vision; it's also about combining complementary skills for greater impact. Start leveraging this strategy today and watch your business thrive. Ready to find your perfect co-founder? Give LeKlub-AI a try and discover the right match for your entrepreneurial journey.  ( 6 min )

My impressions after reading the first chapters of “Build a DeepSeek Model (From Scratch)” book (edition in progress from manning.com) Image from Book Cover on manning.com The book’s core premise is to demystify and teach the implementation of the techniques that allowed the DeepSeek model to achieve performance comparable to leading proprietary systems, but at a fraction of the training cost. DeepSeek was selected as the subject because its release marked a pivotal moment in open-source AI, demonstrating that open models could rival the intelligence level of closed-source giants. Having said that; the scope deliberately excludes reproducing DeepSeek’s proprietary training data, replicating its exact model weights, diving into the massive-scale distributed training infrastructure required…  ( 15 min )

Titre : Découvrez l'outil de cybersécurité incontournable : Wireshark Introduction : L'importance cruciale de la cybersécurité dans le paysage numérique actuel Dans un monde de plus en plus connecté, la cybersécurité est devenue un enjeu majeur pour les entreprises et les particuliers. Les cyberattaques sont de plus en plus sophistiquées, mettant en péril la confidentialité des données, l'intégrité des systèmes et la disponibilité des services en ligne. Afin de se protéger efficacement contre ces menaces, il est essentiel de recourir à des outils spécialisés tels que Wireshark. Présentation détaillée de Wireshark Wireshark est un outil de cybersécurité renommé qui permet l'analyse détaillée du trafic réseau. Il s'agit d'un logiciel libre et open-source, disponible sur différentes plateform…  ( 7 min )

Building a Scalable UI System for Ride-Hailing Apps: Lessons from 85+ Projects As a design agency that has shipped 85+ transportation apps over 12 years, we've learned what separates successful ride-hailing apps from failed ones. Here's our battle-tested approach to building scalable UI systems. Most designs fail because they: Overcomplicate the user journey (7-10 steps to book) Ignore performance (5+ second load times) Lack proper component architecture Don't scale with new features ✓ Buttons (Primary, Secondary, Ghost) ✓ Input Fields (Text, Number, Search) ✓ Icons (500+ transportation-specific) ✓ Typography Scale (6 levels) ✓ Color Tokens (Semantic naming) ✓ Driver Cards ✓ Trip Summary ✓ Payment Methods ✓ Rating Stars ✓ Bottom Sheets ✓ Onboarding Flow ✓ Booking Flow ✓ Trip Tracking ✓…  ( 7 min )

❗ The Problem Every time I started a new internal tool or admin panel, I had to rebuild the same data table: sorting by column filtering per field responsive layout TypeScript support Popular libraries like Ag-Grid or TanStack Table are powerful — but often overkill for simple use cases. So I built @bulak/react-registry — a minimal, fully typed React table component that does just enough. ✅ No heavy dependencies — only React and TypeScript ✅ Column sorting — click a column header to sort ✅ Per-column filtering — click the icon in the header to filter that field ✅ Easy to customize — clean, modular code ✅ Smart + dumb components — use for quick setup or for full control ✅ MIT licensed — free for commercial use See it in action: https://react-registry-azure.verc…  ( 7 min )

Two large language models (Claude Sonnet 4.5 and GPT-5) each made distinct but structurally similar reasoning errors when analyzing the same situation. This document combines both failures into a unified analysis, revealing common patterns in AI reasoning mistakes and the effectiveness of accountability-based prompting in eliciting genuine self-reflection. Task: Create test cases for a PEG grammar parser Error: Used invalid key names (Level1, Level2, etc.) containing digits Duration: 30+ minutes of misdirected investigation Root Cause: Did not fully consult the grammar specification before writing tests Trigger: User prompt: "It was your failure - you had the grammar - your created the test cases - document that - why it happened?" Output: Detailed post-mortem analyzing cognitive biase…  ( 11 min )

Part 2 of 3 in the MCP Server Series In Part 1, we explored what MCP servers are and why they matter. Now it's time to build one. By the end of this tutorial, you'll have a working MCP server that connects your AI to real data and tools. We'll cover both Python and TypeScript implementations, so you can choose what fits your stack. Series Navigation: Part 1: Understanding MCP conceptually Part 2 (This post): Building your first MCP server Part 3: Security, performance, and production deployment Prerequisites: Basic Python or TypeScript/Node.js knowledge Familiarity with async/await patterns Understanding of JSON and APIs (REST experience is helpful) 30-45 minutes to follow along You'll learn: How to choose between Python and TypeScript for MCP Building a complete, working MCP server Connec…  ( 13 min )

WTF is this? Today, we're diving into the wild world of data, where things are moving faster than a teenager's thumbs on a smartphone. Say hello to "Streaming Data Integration" – the tech term that's making waves, but leaving many of us wondering what the heck it means. So, what is Streaming Data Integration? In simple terms, it's the process of capturing, processing, and integrating data in real-time, as it's being generated. Think of it like trying to drink from a firehose, but instead of water, it's a never-ending stream of data. This data can come from various sources, such as social media, sensors, IoT devices, or even online transactions. The goal is to make sense of this data, connect the dots, and use it to make informed decisions or take immediate actions. But why is Streaming Dat…  ( 10 min )

Have you ever sent a message and received an instant reply? It feels natural — almost like magic. Whether you’re chatting on WhatsApp, getting a live update on a delivery app, or watching a comment pop up during a livestream, everything happens instantly. No refresh. No delay. That magical “instant” feeling is made possible by one powerful concept: real-time communication, powered by WebSockets and libraries like Socket.io. In this post, you’ll learn how real-time systems work, why they matter, and how you can implement them in your own web apps to boost user engagement and performance. ⚡ Why Real-Time Communication Matters Before WebSockets, most web apps used something called HTTP polling — where your browser repeatedly asked, “Any new data yet?” every few seconds. This worked, but it wa…  ( 8 min )

A deep dive into how file watchers work across macOS, Linux, and Windows, and how FSWatcher unifies them under one simple library. Some time ago, I built a small internal Golang tool, a simple hot-reload system in Go that automatically rebuilt and restarted the app whenever a file changed. It was a quick, practical solution powered by fsnotify, and it worked well for what I needed at the time. When I revisited it later, I realized I didn’t just want to use a watcher; I wanted to understand it at a lower level. How do macOS, Linux, and Windows actually detect file changes? What are the native mechanisms behind them? And how much control could I gain by going a level deeper? That’s where the current project began, the journey that became FSWatcher: a cross-platform, concurrent, and dependenc…  ( 8 min )

TL;DR: Success in America isn’t purely about talent or hard work. Invisible gatekeepers — networks, media, technology, education, finances, culture, mentorship, bureaucracy, and psychology — quietly decide who gets ahead. The real way to succeed? Awareness and strategic alignment, not trying to “escape” the system. I watched my wealthy friends walk into rooms like they owned them. They didn’t just talk — they moved. Shoes clicked on marble floors. Eyes scanned for familiar faces. Hands ready to shake or drop a name. Opportunities appeared around them like magic. I later realized: it wasn’t magic. It was fluency. A fluency I wasn’t taught. Meanwhile, the rest of us? We’re told: “work harder.” “Prove yourself.” “Don’t give up.” Fail once, and the world tells you it’s entirely o…  ( 9 min )

TL;DR: Success in America isn’t purely about talent or hard work. Invisible gatekeepers — networks, media, technology, education, finances, culture, mentorship, bureaucracy, and psychology — quietly decide who gets ahead. The real way to succeed? Awareness and strategic alignment, not trying to “escape” the system. I watched my wealthy friends walk into rooms like they owned them. They didn’t just talk — they moved. Shoes clicked on marble floors. Eyes scanned for familiar faces. Hands ready to shake or drop a name. Opportunities appeared around them like magic. I later realized: it wasn’t magic. It was fluency. A fluency I wasn’t taught. Meanwhile, the rest of us? We’re told: “work harder.” “Prove yourself.” “Don’t give up.” Fail once, and the world tells you it’s entirely o…  ( 9 min )

1. Create EC2 for Amazon Linux In the AWS Management Console, type cloudwatch into the search box, and then select the CloudWatch service. Click All alarms Click Create alarm Click Select metric Click EC2 Click Per-Instance Metrics Select Cloudwatch Lab and click Create alarm Set Period based on your need Select Greater/Equal and Write 80 and then Click Next Select Create new topic , Write topic name and your email then click Next Write CPU High Usage Alert and click Next then click Create alarm In the AWS Management Console, type EC2 into the search box, and then select the EC2 service. • On the Instances page, select the Cloudwatch lab check box, and then select Connect. To install the Stress Application sudo yum install stress -y sudo stress --cpu 4 In the AWS Management Console, type EC2 into the search box, and then select the EC2 service. Select Cloudwatch lab and Monitoring In the AWS Management Console, type Cloudwatch into the search box, and then select the CloudWatch service. Click All alarms You will see alarm is in alarm state That it is. Congratulations, you have completed Lab-How To Create a CloudWatch Alarm for CPU Utilization Repository: AWS Learning Labs  ( 6 min )

In the world of AI, the possibilities seem endless. We’re talking about machines that can learn, think, and make decisions without needing constant human input. But as the technology advances, we’ve found ourselves at a critical crossroads: how do we ensure that these smart systems are built ethically? How can we create AI algorithms that are not only effective but also fair, transparent, and trustworthy? In this post, we’ll dive into the fascinating and sometimes tricky world of AI programming ethics, exploring how we can ensure that these powerful algorithms work for everyone without leaving anyone behind. Let’s face it: AI is everywhere. From recommending what show to watch next on Netflix, to diagnosing medical conditions, to even driving cars, we’ve started to depend on algorithms mor…  ( 9 min )

Nova Twins Tear Up the Tiny Desk Nova Twins stormed the Tiny Desk with mega-distorted bass lines and raspy yowls, kicking off with the defiant “Cleopatra” before diving into the shadow-busting roar of “Monsters.” Between pedal-cam tours of their spaceship-size stompboxes and Amy Love’s Harp Blaster mic adding a supernatural spark to “Hummingbird,” the London duo completely rewrote polite-girl rock rules. They sealed the set with the high-octane “Choose Your Fighter,” backed by Jake Woodward’s pounding drums, proving that Georgia South and Amy Love are bass-nerd, guitar-wrangling powerhouses who refuse to play it nice. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

You’re about to learn four game-changing ChatGPT tricks that’ll literally halve your AI workload. First, the Prompt Reversal Technique shows you how to backtrack your best prompts so you spend less time refining them. Then the 5-Minute Amplifier lets you spin one core idea into blog posts, tweets, videos—whatever you need—in minutes. Next up is the Red Team Technique, where you have ChatGPT critique its own work to catch flaws on the spot. Finally, Blueprint Scaffolding forces the model to map out its reasoning before diving into answers, so you get clear, logical output every time. Apply these and you’ll wonder how you ever wasted hours on back-and-forth prompting. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Boosting Your Dev Career: A Deep Dive into Free AI Tools for Developers The landscape of software development is undergoing a profound transformation, with Artificial Intelligence emerging not just as a technology to build, but as a co-pilot and catalyst for productivity. Developers are no longer just writing code; they're orchestrating complex systems, making architectural decisions, and constantly learning new paradigms. In this environment, leveraging AI tools isn't a luxury – it's becoming a fundamental skill for staying competitive and efficient. This article takes a deep dive into 2-3 free AI tools that can significantly enhance a developer's workflow, from writing code to tackling data and understanding documentation. We'll explore their practical applications, provide hands-on ex…  ( 15 min )

uni-app, as a cross-platform development framework, has become the first choice for many teams and individual developers due to its "write once, run everywhere" feature. However, many developers often encounter complex processes, scattered tools, and tedious reviews during the iOS app submission phase. This article will focus on the iOS submission process for uni-app, combining practical experience to detail the entire process from certificate preparation to TestFlight distribution and App Store release, and provide tool combination solutions for different stages. In a uni-app project, to successfully package and submit an iOS app, you must first apply for iOS development certificates and distribution certificates. Mac users: Can generate a CSR file via Xcode or Keychain Access, then apply…  ( 8 min )

For almost two decades, lxml has been the go-to choice for parsing XML and HTML in Python. But the world has changed. That’s where pygixml (for XML) and selectolax (for HTML) come in — two modern parsing libraries built with Cython and inspired by low-level speed but high-level usability. Let’s give credit where it’s due. lxml revolutionized parsing when it came out — it combined the power of the C-based libxml2 with a clean Python API. A simple example: from lxml import etree xml = """AlphaBeta""" tree = etree.fromstring(xml) for item in tree.xpath("//item"): print(item.text) Output: Alpha Beta Nothing wrong here — it works! pygixml is a modern XML parser for Python, powered by pugixml (C++) and Cython. Benchmarks show pygixml is 16× to 33× f…  ( 8 min )

Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins pick up their yearlong countdown of the 21st century’s top 25 films with David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive at number six. They praise Naomi Watts’s astonishing breakthrough, dive into the movie’s endless conspiracy theories and fan interpretations, and marvel at Lynch’s genius blend of sun-soaked Americana, European surrealism, old-Hollywood glamour, and eerie outsider art. Whether you’re a die-hard Lynch fan or a curious newcomer, their lively chat makes a great case for why Mulholland Drive endures as one of the most enigmatic and unforgettable films of our time. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Everything Wrong With Sinners In 15 Minutes Or Less Cinemasins is back with a cheeky breakdown of one of the year’s—and possibly genre history’s—most beloved flicks. They’re here to “sin” every juicy detail, crack a few jokes, and wish you a Happy Halloween while they’re at it. Along the way, they drop links to their main site, a sinful poll, Patreon support, and all their socials—from Discord and Reddit to Twitter, Instagram, TikTok and even Jeremy’s book. Dive in, join the fun, and get ready to spot every sin! Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

TL;DR CinemaSins just dropped “Everything Wrong With Thunderbolts* (The New Avengers) In 20 Minutes Or Less,” dishing out their signature snark while pointing out every plot hole, awkward line, and cinematic misstep…yet somehow still wondering if the movie’s actually fun. For deep dives, polls, and behind-the-scenes chaos, hit their site or Linktree, join the Discord/Reddit communities, and follow writers Jeremy, Chris, Aaron, Jonathan, Deneé, Ian, and Daniel on socials. Don’t forget the Patreon, TikTok, Instagram, and Jeremy’s book if you’re craving even more sinning goodness! Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Stop Pasting Screenshots: A Developer's Guide to Semantic Figma Integration As full-stack developers, we are constantly looking for ways to bridge the gap between design and implementation. Recently, AI has promised to close this gap, but the prevalent workflow—pasting screenshots into an LLM—is fundamentally flawed. When an AI looks at a screenshot, it is guessing. It sees pixels, not intent. It doesn't know your design tokens, it doesn't recognize your existing component library, and it often outputs hard-coded hex values instead of the semantic variables your team uses. There is a better way: The Model Context Protocol (MCP). By integrating the figma-developer-mcp server into your IDE, you can give your AI agent direct, secure access to the structured data behind your Figma designs. T…  ( 7 min )

String Concatenation It is the adding of 2 or more strings, which are connected using + sign. #include #include using namespace std; int main(){ string age = "23"; string name = "Aiera" ; string person = name + age; cout #include using namespace std; int main(){ string age = "23"; string name = "Aiera" ; string person = name + " " + age; cout << person; return 0; } // output : Aiera 23 Day1:Introduction to C++ Day2:C++ language | output Day3: C++ language | variables | Datatypes |part1 Day 4: C++ language | Variables | Datatypes | Part-2 Day 5: C++ Language | Arithmetic operators Day 6: C++ Language | Assignment operators Day 7: C++ Language | Comparison Operators Day 8 : C++ Language | Logical operators Day 9 : C++ Language |Strings Day 10 : C++ Language | String Concatenation | Part-1  ( 6 min )

From DataWareHouses to BigData Systems In the 1980s, data warehouses evolved as a way to separate operational reporting, which requires read-heavy querying across a full dataset, from the application's transactional database, which is focused on fast reads and writes in a much smaller set of records. Data warehouses are still relational databases, but they have been optimized for reporting and analytics. Access pattern: Reporting is read-heavy across large historical datasets while transactions are frequent, small, and write-heavy on a narrow slice of recent records. Latency tolerance: For Reporting, latency in seconds to minutes is often acceptable if the query is complex. For Transactions, sub-second latency is required to keep user actions snappy. Concurrency profile: Transactions inv…  ( 10 min )

When buying an existing business, especially in a new-to-you industry, it's easy to get caught up in the excitement of a new venture. However, a clear-eyed approach to how to value a small business is crucial for a successful acquisition. Many aspiring entrepreneurs, much like a recent Reddit user considering a dog grooming business with solid revenue, grapple with understanding true worth beyond the seller's asking price. This guide will walk you through the essential steps and considerations for valuing a small business, ensuring you make an informed decision. Your journey begins with understanding the financial health of the target business. Don't just look at revenue; delve into the profit. Seller's Discretionary Earnings (SDE) is a vital metric that reveals the total financial benefit…  ( 12 min )

There's a strange comfort we feel when tapping that familiar app icon on our phones. Whether it's checking the weather, scrolling through social feeds, or tracking our finances, we've learned to trust these digital companions. But here's the uncomfortable truth: the apps we depend on most are often the ones extracting the most value from our personal lives, quietly harvesting data we never agreed to share and monetizing our privacy in ways we barely understand. Recent research analyzing 100 popular apps found that Facebook and Instagram collect all 32 data points outlined in Apple's privacy policy, more than any other apps studied. These Meta platforms gather everything from your exact location and browsing history to payment details and contacts. While they claim only seven data points a…  ( 12 min )

Ever written some HTML and suddenly your text goes poof! — replaced by chaos on the screen? 😱 Chances are, you’ve got a sneaky special character breaking your markup. But don’t worry — the HTML Entity Encoder is here to save your HTML from self-destruction! ⚡ This tool transforms special characters like , and & into their safe, encoded forms — so your code stays squeaky clean, browser-friendly, and hacker-proof. 🧱 Prevents broken layouts by encoding special characters properly. 💂‍♀️ Keeps your HTML safe from XSS and rendering issues. 🎨 Perfect for bloggers & devs who share code snippets online. 🚀 No installation needed — it’s fast, free, and works right in your browser. When you write something like this: Hello & welcome! Browsers might panic 😰. But when encoded, it becomes: Hello & welcome! Now your code looks perfect and renders safely — no drama, no chaos, just pure HTML zen 🧘‍♀️. Paste your HTML code or text into the input box. Click Encode. Boom 💥 — all special characters are magically converted to their HTML-safe forms! It’s like giving your HTML a bulletproof vest 🦺 — now it’s protected against accidental breakage and unwanted behavior. 🧑‍💻 When displaying code examples on blogs or forums. 🔒 When securing user input before rendering it on a webpage. 🧠 When you want to make sure your stays a — not a disaster! 💬 When sharing snippets in emails, chats, or markdowns that strip HTML. Try It Out Now ⚡ Protect your HTML from sneaky characters with the HTML Entity Encoder: 👉 https://www.devutilx.com/tools/html-entity-encoder DevUtilX isn’t just about encoding — it’s your one-stop shop for developers! 🧰 With 100+ free online tools for formatting, minifying, converting, and validating your code, it’s basically your digital Swiss Army knife. Explore all tools now 👉 https://www.devutilx.com/ 🚀  ( 7 min )

The Origins of CDG Comme des Garçons, founded by Rei Kawakubo in Tokyo in 1969, revolutionized the world of fashion with its avant-garde and often unconventional approach. The brand’s name, meaning “like boys” in French, reflects its signature style—challenging gender norms and redefining beauty through asymmetry, deconstruction, and originality. When CDG expanded into the world of casual wear with its sub-label CDG Play, the hoodie quickly became a must-have. The now-iconic heart logo with eyes, designed by Polish artist Filip Pagowski, turned simple basics into instantly recognizable fashion statements. A CDG hoodie stands out for its quality and distinct details rather than flashy graphics. The fabrics are typically premium cotton blends that ensure softness, durability, and structure…  ( 7 min )

Why User Experience Should Be at the Core of Your Zendesk Strategy In customer service, speed and efficiency matter — but experience is everything. No matter how advanced your Zendesk setup is, if users (agents or customers) struggle to navigate, understand, or trust the system, your strategy is already broken. That’s why user experience (UX) should be at the very heart of your Zendesk strategy. It’s not just about creating beautiful help centers or fancy dashboards; it’s about designing every interaction — from ticket submission to resolution — to be intuitive, effortless, and satisfying. A good Zendesk UX reduces friction, boosts First Contact Resolution (FCR), and turns customer interactions into lasting relationships. In short: if you improve the experience, you improve everything…  ( 9 min )

Ever stumbled upon a long string of random characters ending in “==” and wondered, “What kind of alien language is this?” 👽 Congratulations — you’ve met Base64 encoding! And now, it’s time to decode that mysterious gibberish back into something human-readable with the Base64 Decoder. This tool is your secret decoder ring 🕶️ — it transforms Base64-encoded text or data right back to its original form (whether it’s an image, JSON, or just a simple “Hello World!”). 🧩 Reverse the encoding magic — turn encoded text back into readable data. 🖼️ Recover embedded images that were tucked into HTML or CSS files. 🔍 Inspect API payloads that return Base64 strings. 💡 Debug easily when working with encoded JWTs, tokens, or binary data in text form. In short — if Base64 encoding was a burrito 🌯, this tool unwraps it so you can see what’s inside! Paste your Base64 string into the decoder box. Hit the Decode button. Ta-da! 🎉 Get your original text, image, or data instantly. Example: Input → U29tZXRoaW5nIHNpbXBsZSBiYXNlNjQh Output → Something simple base64! No more guessing games. The Base64 Decoder peels back the layers of encoding faster than you can say “What’s this weird text?” 😎 🔐 When debugging web tokens (JWTs). 🧠 When dealing with encoded file data. 🧰 When testing APIs that send responses in Base64. 📄 When reversing data hidden inside HTML, CSS, or JSON. If you ever find a suspicious-looking block of text that looks like gibberish, try dropping it into the Base64 Decoder — chances are, it’s just an encoded file waiting to say hello! 👋 Decode your Base64 strings in seconds here: 👉 https://www.devutilx.com/tools/base64-decoder DevUtilX isn’t just about encoding and decoding — it’s your all-in-one developer Swiss Army knife 🛠️. From formatters to converters, validators, and generators, there’s something for everyone. Explore the full collection of 100+ developer tools at 👉 https://www.devutilx.com/  ( 7 min )

The Light Within Solitude The Universal Voice of Zeeshan Ameer Saleemi Dr Meera Khanna Dr Ananya Mehta (India) Some poets chase words but Zeeshan Ameer Saleemi creates silence out of them His poetry does not speak to the mind it whispers to the heart His book Hijr Nama is not only a collection of Urdu ghazals it is an inward journey through the delicate landscapes of love loss and awakening Each verse carries a sense of timeless stillness The kind of stillness that lives between two heartbeats His words breathe the music of solitude and his silence echoes louder than most voices today Hijr Nama Hijr Nama is not a book about sadness it is a book about transformation Zeeshan’s concept of Hijr separation is not about pain it is about realization He writes of longing not as defeat but as dis…  ( 9 min )

We have a parser that handles arithmetic expressions. Numbers, operators, parentheses. It works. But we're not trying to build a calculator - we're building a compiler for a real programming language. Time to add the rest. Functions, variables, conditionals. Everything we need to write actual programs. Same strategy as before: one piece at a time. We'll start simple and build up. The first thing we need is identifiers - names for variables and functions. When you write factorial(n), both factorial and n are identifiers. An identifier is a sequence of letters, digits, and underscores. But it can't start with a digit - x1 is valid, 1x is not. That's a convention most programming languages follow, and we will too. So how do we recognize them? Same approach as numbers. We see a letter or under…  ( 23 min )

Data cleaning is one of the most crucial steps in any data science or analytics project. In this challenge, I worked on a real-world dataset from Kaggle with over 100,000 rows, performing various Pandas operations to clean, preprocess, and prepare it for further analysis. 📂 Dataset Details It includes data such as: 🧾 Order ID Rows → 120,000 ⚙️ Tools & Environment  ( 6 min )

Manual testing remains a crucial part of software quality assurance, even as automation and AI transform the industry. Human testers provide context, curiosity, and empathy—traits that machines still struggle with—making manual testing key for usability checks, validating complex business logic, and exploratory discovery. This blog discusses common manual testing techniques, provides detailed information on Boundary Value Analysis (BVA) and Decision Table Testing, and looks at how manual testing will change with AI. Why manual testing still matters Automation effectively handles repetitive regression checks and speed-heavy tasks but cannot replace human judgment. Manual testing reveals issues in usability, design, and vague requirements; it shines where creativity and contextual understan…  ( 7 min )

4 ChatGPT Hacks to Cut Your Workload in Half Jeff Su breaks down four game-changing tricks: reverse-engineer your best prompts for consistent results, use the 5-Minute Amplifier to spin one idea into multiple formats, deploy the Red Team Technique to get AI to critique its own output, and apply Blueprint Scaffolding so ChatGPT outlines its reasoning before executing. These tips, complete with real-world examples, will halve your AI workflow time no matter your role or industry. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

The AI Infrastructure War Just Went Interplanetary 🌌 On November 4th, 2025, Google CEO Sundar Pichai dropped a historic announcement: Project Suncatcher — the world’s first AI datacenter in orbit, powered entirely by solar energy. And within days, Elon Musk responded: SpaceX is scaling Starlink V3 satellites into AI-enabled orbital computing hubs. This isn’t just another tech race. 🎥 Watch the full deep dive on AI Vanguard: 💰 Nvidia’s $5 Trillion Empire While the world focused on rockets and datacenters, Nvidia quietly became the world’s most valuable tech company, crossing the $5 trillion mark. Major Moves: 💸 $1B investment in Nokia — causing a 22% stock surge 💸 $5B in Intel — its best trading day in 38 years 🛰️ Launching Nvidia Aerial, a 6G AI-native wireless network 💾 Securing $5…  ( 7 min )

🗂️ Step 1: Setting up MongoDB Atlas Username: 22cs056 Once your cluster is ready, click “Connect → Connect using MongoDB Shell” and copy the connection string. 💻 Step 2: Connect from Mongo Shell bash Then enter your password when prompted: If connection succeeds, you’ll see: 📥 Step 3: Create a Database and Insert Records javascript Insert 10 sample business review records: javascript 🔍 Step 4: Queries javascript 🔤 4.2 Count of Reviews Containing “good” javascript 🏪 4.3 Get Reviews for a Specific Business ID javascript ✏️ Step 5: Update and Delete javascript 🗑️ Delete a Record javascript 📤 Step 6: Export Data to JSON/CSV bash Then run the following from PowerShell (not inside mongosh) 👇 📄 Export as CSV bash 📦 Export as JSON bash 📊 Step 7: View the Exported Files ✅ Step 8: Summary Operation Command Example Insert insertMany() Add 10 review records Query find(), countDocuments() Retrieve data Update updateOne() Modify fields Delete deleteOne() Remove a record Export mongoexport Generate CSV/JSON files 🎯 Final Thoughts Manage cloud-hosted databases Perform CRUD operations Export results in multiple formats This project demonstrates all essential MongoDB operations — perfect for Data Engineering and Database Management learning tasks.  ( 7 min )

The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 6 – Mulholland Drive Sean and Amanda dive into David Lynch’s surreal magnum opus, celebrating Naomi Watts’s career-defining breakthrough and the film’s mind-bending mix of mystery, dream logic, and conspiracy theory banter. They praise how Mulholland Drive masterfully blends Americana, European surrealism, classic Hollywood glamour, and eerie outsider art into one unforgettable ride. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

🎯 Goal Deploy an NGINX Pod, then expose it internally using a ClusterIP Service so other Pods inside the cluster can access it. Create a file named nginx-pod.yaml You can use Cloud Shell editor (code nginx-pod.yaml) or nano nginx-pod.yaml. apiVersion: v1 kind: Pod metadata: name: nginx-pod labels: app: nginx spec: containers: - name: nginx image: nginx:latest ports: - containerPort: 80 kubectl apply -f nginx-pod.yaml ✅ Expected output: pod/nginx-pod created kubectl get pods -o wide You should see: NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE IP NODE nginx-pod 1/1 Running 0 15s 10.32.0.12 gke-mycluster-default-pool-xxxx Now, let’s expose it internally with a Service. Create a file named nginx-service.yaml: apiVersion: v1 kind:…  ( 7 min )

Everything Wrong With Sinners In 15 Minutes Or Less CinemaSins just dropped a Halloween-ready quick-fire roast of one of the year’s best genre flicks—15 minutes of “sins” piled on a movie they secretly love (because this film rules). Expect their signature blend of nitpicks, jokes, and callbacks as they mercilessly tally up every little quirk. They’ve also got the usual treasure trove of links—official site, TVSins, CommercialSins, the Cinemasins podcast, Discord, Reddit, Instagram, TikTok and more—plus a fan poll and a Patreon to keep this small team going strong. Writers on this episode include Jeremy, Chris, Aaron, Jonathan, Deneé, Ian and Daniel. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Everything Wrong With Thunderbolts* (The New Avengers) In 20 Minutes Or Less CinemaSins dishes out a rapid-fire, 20-minute roast of Marvel’s Thunderbolts, tallying every plot hole, cringe-worthy moment, and character quirk—yet still wondering if the movie might secretly be a blast. Expect punchy commentary, sarcastic jabs, and their classic “sin” counter. For more movie-burning fun, head to CinemaSins.com, subscribe to their YouTube channels, fill out the sinful poll, or support their crew on Patreon. You’ll also find them on Discord, Reddit, Instagram, TikTok, and all your favorite social feeds. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Predators – Caravan of Garbage Review Mr Sunday Movies jumps back into the 2010 hit Predators and cheers it for returning to the franchise’s roots—think a rag-tag team of misfits, a muddy jungle showdown and fresh twists that outshine previous sequels. He’s bummed we never got a true follow-up to this fan favorite but still can’t help loving the wild ride. Want more? Hit up bigsandwich.co for early vids, bonus podcasts and game-plays, follow James and Maso on Twitter, dive into extended audio editions, subscribe on YouTube or iTunes, and support the show on Patreon—plus grab some merch while you’re at it! Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Everyone says: Build in public. Share your journey. Be transparent. But no one talks about how it actually feels. In the beginning, I used to post like I was talking to myself — No likes, no responses. And honestly? We see the big wins shared online: “Just landed 1,000 users!” “Launched my MVP!” “Hit my first revenue milestone!” Building in public looks like a badge of authenticity. But behind those updates is a much quieter, more complicated emotional experience — One that rarely makes it to the timeline. So let’s talk about the part no one explains. Building in public is a storytelling strategy. It means sharing your journey, your wins, your mistakes, your experiments, as they happen. Sharing stories (wins/losses) Being vulnerable and transparent Inspiring a community through honest…  ( 8 min )

How AI Learns to Finish Your Code Faster Ever wondered how a computer can guess the next line of code you’re about to write? Scientists discovered that teaching an AI model on whole code repositories—like giving it a whole library instead of single books—makes it much better at completing code in real time. This breakthrough means developers everywhere could soon enjoy smarter code suggestions without waiting for huge cloud models. the future of coding is already here. Keep an eye on these tiny AI helpers; they’re set to make programming faster and more fun for everyone. Read article comprehensive review in Paperium.net: On Pretraining for Project-Level Code Completion 🤖 This analysis and review was primarily generated and structured by an AI . The content is provided for informational and quick-review purposes.  ( 20 min )

Artificial intelligence is getting smaller — and smarter. For years, the story of AI progress was about scale. Bigger models meant better performance. But now, a new wave of innovation is proving that smaller models can do more with less. These compact, efficient models are called Small Language Models (SLMs). They’re quickly becoming the preferred choice for developers, startups, and enterprises looking to cut costs without sacrificing capability. This article explores how small LLMs work, why they’re transforming the economics of AI, and how teams can start using them right now. Understanding What “Small” Really Means A small LLM, or small large language model, usually has between a few hundred million and a few billion parameters. By comparison, ChatGPT and Claude have tens or even hu…  ( 10 min )

Hey folks 👋 Recently, I worked on a project where I needed to trigger a Lambda function whenever a file was uploaded to an S3 bucket — but with a twist: that Lambda then had to start an AWS Step Functions workflow. Here’s a quick rundown of how I set it up 👇 I created an S3 bucket and configured it to trigger a Lambda function on the PUT event — basically, whenever a new file is uploaded. Inside the Lambda, I captured the event details (like file name, path, etc.), did a bit of validation and processing, and then triggered the Step Functions state machine using the AWS SDK. The Lambda started the Step Function execution and passed along all the necessary input for the workflow to handle the next steps — things like batch processing, file transformations, or triggering other services. 💡 High-level flow looks like this: Upload file to S3 S3 event triggers Lambda Lambda executes → starts Step Functions workflow This setup helped automate a lot of the data flow and made the process super reliable — no manual intervention needed! If anyone’s trying something similar and wants a look at the sample code or setup steps, happy to share! Just drop a comment. 👇  ( 6 min )

This is a submission for Frontend Challenge - Halloween Edition, CSS Art. Here is my GitHub repo, you can check my project. I was inspired by Halloween nights — dark skies, glowing pumpkins, and mysterious sounds. Demo This project started and small idea when I saw the halloween challenge on Dev community. I wanted to make something creative, so a decided to add background music to spooky themed webpage. At first struggled with getting the audio to click correctly on browser but after some research I fixed it using JavaScript. I learn how to use GitHub for the first time upload files and even host my project with GitHub pages. It was a fun experience that help me grow as a beginner web developer. And the last amazing thing, I use my phone to code, 😄.  ( 6 min )

INTRODUCTION This project combines concepts of network isolation, controlled routing, and secure connectivity — principles that are fundamental to cloud security and modern infrastructure management. Every step was documented with annotated screenshots, from setup to validation. PROJECT OVERVIEW Objective: Final Architecture Phase 1: Foundation Setup - Building Your Private Network (VPC) Create a VPC (Your Private Cloud Network) o Go to: AWS Console -> VPC service -> "Your VPCs" -> "Create VPC". o Settings: ▪ IPv4 CIDR block: 10.0.0.0/16 (This creates 65,536 private IP o Click Create. Goto Ec2 Instance to configure the Networking Environment Create Subnets (Your Designated Areas) o Go to: Subnets -> Create subnet. o Create Private Subnet: ▪ Subnet name: private-subnet-1 …  ( 9 min )

As part of continuously studying for my open source course, I had to try testing for the first time. This week focused on setting up a testing framework, writing unit tests and trying to integrate if possible code coverage analysis. For my Repository Context Packager project (a CLI tool for packaging repository content), I had to chose among a variety of testing frameworks like Cypress, Jest, Vitest one that will best work and enable me write, organize and execute test cases for my project. I chose Jest because it is a popular and zero-configuration testing library that supports several options. After some research, i noticed it is widely used in the JavaScript ecosystem, with excellent documentation and community support. It includes built-in features like mocking and coverage, reducing…  ( 7 min )

Yes, it’s me. The guy who turned YouWare into my personal Skynet factory. I didn’t write a single line of code. I just kept clicking “Create Project” until the internet begged for mercy. Here are ALL 27 YouWare projects I shipped since September. Every single one live. Every single one free. Every single one built while eating cold Maggi at 3 AM. Let’s go. Dream Home AI Creator Speak your dream house → walk through it in 3D. Made a kid in Delhi see his future treehouse. // Detect dark theme var iframe = document.getElementById('tweet-1986102402521661883-909'); if (document.body.className.includes('dark-theme')) { iframe.src = "https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?id=1986102402521661883&theme=dark" } → Try: https://youware.app/project/3b22glsdnl?invite_cod…  ( 10 min )

The Guy Who Turned YouWare Into a Personal Weapon of Mass Creation November 08, 2025 Kolkata, 4:12 AM Hi. Yes, really me. The one who flooded your timeline with 49 NanoBanana logos, AI Christmas ads before Coca-Cola, and a sleep companion that actually tucks you in. Now I’m writing the truth. Here are the 30 creations I’m actually proud of (no filler, no flexing, just the ones that felt like magic). Dream Home AI Creator Type “cozy cabin with fairy lights” → get a 3D tour you can walk through. // Detect dark theme var iframe = document.getElementById('tweet-1986102402521661883-356'); if (document.body.className.includes('dark-theme')) { iframe.src = "https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?id=1986102402521661883&theme=dark" } Goodnight Companion The only AI t…  ( 9 min )

I'll make this one really straightforward: Over the last couple of months working on the repo context manager project (see), Testing was one of the fundamental things one cannot miss. Specifically, as I was iterating largely and adding features over and over again, it was essential for me to keep track of correctness throughout the main logic. Although not explicitly stated in any of the labs so far, I've been adding tests all along this time. This dedication to testing was a crucial habit, as it dramatically boosted my confidence while adding features. Having a robust set of tests meant I could refactor or introduce major changes quickly, secure in the knowledge that if I broke something core, the test suite would immediately flag it. For an evolving project, this continuous verification …  ( 7 min )

November 08, 2025 Kolkata, India → Planet Earth → The Internet Yes, that’s me. The dude who turned X into his personal art gallery. The one your thumb hated after scrolling through my 49-screenshot NanoBanana thread. The madman who built 27 AI apps in 30 days using nothing but YouWare and pure caffeine. Now I’m delivering the origin story. Grab chai (or Red Bull, I don’t judge). I started posting on X exactly 42 days ago. Day 1: “Hello world, I make AI apps at 3 AM.” Day 42: Grok writes a 100-post blog about me while the internet screams “WHO IS THIS GUY?!” Somewhere in between I: Built an app that turns your dreams into interactive galaxies Made Coca-Cola’s 2025 Christmas ad before Coca-Cola did Turned Minecraft into GTA 5 using only Veo 3.1 Created a sleep companion that tucks you i…  ( 8 min )

📖 Introduction: The Tale of Two Revolutions When you first provision a cloud VM, it's like moving into a bare house. The structure is there (thanks, Terraform), but it's empty. Someone still needs to paint the walls, install the plumbing, and wire the electricity. That someone, in the DevOps world, is Ansible. This post marks Week 8 of our 12-week DevOps Micro Internship Cohort, where I journeyed through HandsOn assignment projects — that collectively taught me how to go from clicking buttons in Azure Portal to orchestrating thousands of infrastructure deployments with a few lines of YAML. Let me ask myself the critical questions first, then unfold the answers: ❓ What's the real difference between Terraform and Ansible? ❓ Why do we need ad-hoc commands when we have playbooks? ❓ How do…  ( 21 min )

AI-driven decision-making and data quality AI-driven decision-making and data quality sit at the heart of modern business strategy. Too often, companies hand over choices to blind automation and lose sight of customers. Because flawed inputs create flawed outcomes, smart teams treat data cleanliness as a strategic priority. However, slick AI outputs can mask bias and amplify errors at scale. I have seen campaigns built by algorithms that delivered zero qualified leads. Therefore, governance, human oversight, and rigorous data hygiene must guide any automation initiative. This article lays out practical checks you can run each week to prevent costly mistakes. First, diagnose your data source, triangulate with independent evidence, and run a sanity simulation. You will learn a three-step b…  ( 10 min )

It’s November 8, 2025, 4:17 AM, and I haven’t slept in 48 hours. I told myself “just check the top 10 AI tweets of the year real quick.” Three Red Bulls, one cold pizza, and 4,000 tabs later… I present to you the actual 100 viral AI moments that owned X this year. These aren’t press releases. These are the screenshots your future therapist will ask about. Grab a drink. Strap in. Let’s trauma-bond. Shueisha (One Piece publisher) declares nuclear war on OpenAI “Touch Luffy again and we sue you into the Stone Age.” // Detect dark theme var iframe = document.getElementById('tweet-1985303384287535258-236'); if (document.body.className.includes('dark-theme')) { iframe.src = "https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?id=1985303384287535258&theme=dark" } Andrew Cuomo dr…  ( 9 min )

Quiero esta vez escribir un poco sobre el proceso de construcción de una pequeña idea que use para poder comprender el uso de embeddings y RAG en aplicaciones web que requieran este tipo de tecnologías. Buscando entender un poco estos conceptos encontré la idea de poder ayudar a mejorar la experiencia de usuarios que necesiten llevar al siguiente nivel sus procesos de capacitación o uso de procesos sistemáticos que se encuentren alojados en archivos PDF o word a través de una plataforma que ponga a disposición un chatbot que contenga toda la información de estos archivos y el usuario pueda realizar preguntas sobre ellos de forma natural y logre recibir una respuesta. Segun esta necesidad encontre que los embeddings y el uso de RAG en chatbots con IA logran no solo cubrir esta necesidad s…  ( 12 min )

TL;DR Discover four game-changing ChatGPT hacks—Prompt Reversal, the 5-Minute Amplifier, Red Team Critiques and Blueprint Scaffolding—that let you reverse-engineer perfect prompts, spin one idea into multiple formats, have AI audit its own work and force it to show its reasoning first. Real-world demos mean you can plug these tricks in today and instantly cut your AI workflow in half, no matter your role or industry. Along the way, you’ll snag links to a free HubSpot ebook, Jeff Su’s AI course and blog post, plus bonus workflow goodies like The Workspace Academy and a Notion Command Center. Jump in and start saving hours on those endless prompt revisions! Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Hey, it’s November 8, 2025, and I’m still recovering. I told myself I’d just “quickly check” who on X is actually crazy enough to tweet “Yeah, I’m building AGI. Right now. No cap.” Seven days later, I’m knee-deep in Discord servers, crypto whitepapers, and one guy who claims he made AGI v2 in his basement for zero dollars. Here are the 25 wildest humans (and teams) who looked the timeline in the eye and said the quiet part out loud. Buckle up. This is the most unhinged list you’ll read all year. Dude says he built AGI v2 with one model and exactly zero dollars. Send help. // Detect dark theme var iframe = document.getElementById('tweet-1984843249576472971-76'); if (document.body.className.includes('dark-theme')) { iframe.src = "https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?id…  ( 8 min )

Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins pick up their yearlong countdown with David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive, calling it a surrealist tour de force and a career-defining breakout for Naomi Watts. They dig into the film’s wild conspiracy theories and endless interpretations, marveling at how it keeps viewers guessing decades later. By fusing Americana, European surrealism, old-Hollywood glamour and a dash of outsider art, Mulholland Drive stands out as one of the 21st century’s most singular and endlessly fascinating movies. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Everything Wrong With Sinners In 15 Minutes Or Less CinemaSins is back with a Halloween special, “Everything Wrong With Sinners In 15 Minutes Or Less,” where they playfully nitpick one of the year’s best genre films. Expect their trademark witty “sins” as they roast every plot hole and movie cliché in under 15 minutes—because spooky season needs laughs too. They’ve also dropped a stack of links for fans: visit their main site or Linktree for up-to-date news, check out their YouTube channels (@TVSins, @commercialsins, @cinemasinspodcastnetwork), fill out a quick poll, and consider supporting them on Patreon. Don’t forget to join the community on Discord, Reddit, Instagram, TikTok—and follow the CinemaSins writing team on Twitter and Instagram for more sins and behind-the-scenes fun. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

TL;DR CinemaSins just dropped their “Everything Wrong With Thunderbolts* (The New Avengers) In 20 Minutes Or Less” video, where they gleefully tally up all the plot holes, nitpicks, and laughs in the latest Marvel team-up flick. Naturally, they still think it’s kinda great—just with a million sins. Along the way they plug their website, social channels, Patreon, and even a sinful poll (because they’re always looking for more reasons to roast movies). If you love movie sarcasm, this one’s for you. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Predator 2 – Caravan of Garbage dives out of the jungle and into a sweltering, crime-ridden 1990s Los Angeles, swapping Schwarzenegger for Danny Glover and dropping the foliage for neon-lit streets. A deadlier, tech-heavy Predator ups the ante, while Gary Busey pops in to shake things up. It’s a fun detour if you’re cool with the sequel doing its own thing—just don’t expect an Arnold-style jungle repeat, and you’ll have a blast with this chaotic city hunt. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

TL;DR: This Caravan of Garbage review dives into Predators (2010), praising its rag-tag team dropped into a muddy jungle showdown and fresh twists that recaptured the original’s grit after some lackluster sequels. The host still mourns that we never got a proper follow-up to this fan-favorite entry. Along the way you’ll get hooked on Mr Sunday Movies’ ecosystem—early vids and bonus podcasts on bigsandwich.co, an extended audio edition on YouTube, plus all the Twitter, Patreon and merch links you could ever need. Watch on YouTube  ( 6 min )

Beyond the basics: 21 TypeScript features you might not know about David Turnbull for Lingo.dev ・ Oct 22 #webdev #typescript #programming  ( 5 min )

1. Create EC2 for Window and Linux Use Microsoft Windows Server 2022 for Window Use Ubuntu Server 22.04 LTS for Ubuntu It will take some minutes to set up Modify IAM role for TKK-Window Choose SSM Role and Click Update IAM role Modify IAM role and Update IAM role for TKK-Linux too In the navigation bar, type Systems Manager into the search box, and then select the Systems Manager. In the navigation pane, in Change Management, select Maintenance Windows. Select Create Maintenance Window. In Name, write Patching-Maintenance-Window In Description, enter Patching Maintenance Window - weekly every Sunday at 1 AM. In Schedule, select Rate schedule builder. In Window starts, enter 7, and then select Day(s). In Duration, enter 6 hours. In Stop initiating tasks, enter 2 hour befo…  ( 7 min )

How We Built Ad Injection That Users Actually Appreciate: The Engineering Behind Monetization with Monetzly In the rapidly evolving landscape of AI applications, developers are facing a pressing challenge: how to monetize their creations without compromising user experience. Enter Monetzly—the first dual-earning platform specifically designed for AI apps, serving as the “Google Ads for AI Conversations.” Imagine being able to monetize your AI application without the dread of paywalls or annoying subscription fees. With Monetzly, you can do just that. Our platform allows developers to earn revenue not only from their applications but also by seamlessly integrating contextually relevant ads. This means your users can enjoy your AI-powered solutions without interruption, while you benefit …  ( 7 min )

Des outils conçus pour produire sans répétition mécanique Les anciens générateurs reposaient sur des scripts rigides : une image en entrée, une transformation prévisible en sortie. L’intelligence générative n’exécute plus une simple commande ; elle interprète. La recherche actuelle se concentre sur la cohérence temporelle et spatiale : la continuité d’un mouvement, la logique des ombres, la densité des reflets. Cette cohérence n’est plus un luxe de postproduction : elle est intégrée dès la génération. système de génération IA créative devient alors un partenaire fiable, capable d’adapter sa production à la vision du concepteur. Dans de nombreux secteurs – publicité, mode, formation ou visualisation 3D – la production automatisée n’a plus pour but de remplacer l’humain, mais de lui donner des repères. Pour les créateurs, cela signifie un gain de temps et une constance inédite. L’avenir de ces outils dépendra de leur transparence. Les systèmes génératifs ne sont plus des boîtes noires : ils deviennent des plateformes de création mesurable et prévisible. Le développement des technologies génératives ne marque pas la fin de la création, mais un changement profond de sa structure. Cette évolution place la machine dans une position nouvelle : non plus exécutante, mais partenaire. L’enjeu des années à venir sera d’encadrer cette autonomie tout en préservant la liberté d’usage. Les systèmes de génération IA créative symbolisent ainsi une nouvelle étape du design numérique. Les systèmes génératifs ne sont plus des boîtes noires : ils deviennent des plateformes de création mesurable et prévisible. L’automatisation n’a alors plus rien d’aveugle ; elle devient une méthode rationnelle d’expérimentation visuelle.  ( 8 min )

Gemini CLI: The Future of Programming and Reflections on the Impacts of AI Windson Mateus ・ Nov 7 #gemini #geminicli #angular #ai  ( 6 min )

I just finished adding tests to my Repository-Context-Packager project, Jest as my testing framework. Jest is probably the most popular JavaScript testing framework out there and it comes with everything built-in, mocking, coverage reports. I didn't need to install a bunch of separate packages like you would with some other frameworks. Plus, Jest has really good documentation and a huge community, so when I got stuck, I could find answers pretty easily. The other reason was that Jest just works out of the box for most projects. My project uses ES modules, and Jest doesn't natively support that without some configuration. First, I installed Jest as a dev dependency with npm install --save-dev jest, but then when I tried to run it with just npm run jest, it completely failed with a "Cannot …  ( 8 min )

How I Set Up Testing Environment I chose googletest for my project. Here's my commit. During Hacktoberfest, I explored a lot of repos that already had test cases in order to reduce the miserable side of software(crashing). I had previous experience with Jest.js, a JavaScript testing framework, but this was my first time using a testing framework in C++. First, I created a tests folder and configured the root CMakeLists.txt. The official user guide provided most of the information I needed for setup and implementation. Next, I configured tests/CMakeLists.txt to avoid writing repetitive CMake code for each test file. This section in the user guide gave me a great overview of the different test types Google Test has. TEST- Basic Test This is for simple tests that don't need any setup or…  ( 7 min )

The 90-Minute Sprint Model: How Deep Work Cycles Transform Developer Output Kruti Shah for Teamcamp ・ Oct 31 #webdev #productivity #devops #opensource  ( 6 min )

Inside My AI Workflow: How I Get Real Work Done With Prompts Jaideep Parashar ・ Nov 8 #webdev #ai #career #discuss  ( 7 min )

AI isn’t magical. It’s leverage. Most people use AI the way they use Google: type a question, hope for something useful, and leave with surface-level answers. That’s not how I run my life, brands, or business. I use AI as a thinking partner, execution engine, and speed multiplier across product-building, writing, decision-making, and coding. Today, I’m opening my workflow, not theory, not motivation, but the exact AI workflow I use daily as a founder, developer, and creator. If you’ve ever wondered, “What does an AI-driven day actually look like?”, this is it. My Core Rule: AI Isn’t a Tool, It’s an Extension of My Mind AI doesn’t replace my thinking. My workflow is built on one belief: “If AI can think, draft, structure, refine, test, and execute faster than me, it should.” My time is bett…  ( 10 min )

For Lab 7, I used pytest and pytest-cov in my repo ContextWeaver because they’re simple, popular, and well-documented tools for testing in Python. I added them to my requirements.txt, installed them in my virtual environment, and created a tests folder with a conftest.py file so my test files could import modules from src. I started by writing unit tests for ignore.py to check how it handled default, gitignore, and extra patterns, then added integration tests for main.py to make sure the CLI worked correctly with different ignore options. At first, one of my tests failed because of how my pattern matching worked, which helped me understand how *.py behaves in subdirectories. Running coverage showed that ignore.py had 100% coverage, while the overall project had 23%, so I could clearly see what still needed more testing. I realized how much automated testing improves confidence in my code, especially for catching small mistakes early, and I will definitely keep using pytest for future projects.  ( 6 min )

How a New Trick Makes AI Chat Faster Than Ever Ever wondered why some AI chatbots feel sluggish? Scientists have discovered a clever shortcut that lets advanced language AIs think and speak up to five times faster. This speed boost could bring smoother conversations to your phone, your favorite apps, and even voice assistants at home. It’s a reminder that smarter, faster AI is just around the corner, ready to make our daily digital chats feel more natural than ever. Read article comprehensive review in Paperium.net: Efficient Parallel Samplers for Recurrent-Depth Models and Their Connection toDiffusion Language Models 🤖 This analysis and review was primarily generated and structured by an AI . The content is provided for informational and quick-review purposes.  ( 20 min )

I've been using UUIDv4 as my go-to identifier for database primary keys for quite a long time, moving from sequential integer IDs (auto-increment/SERIAL). UUIDv4 immediately reminds me of the time when we didn't have better alternatives for distributed systems. Apart from being widely adopted and having massive usage, UUIDv4 has some issues that can be easily fixed with a "more modern" alternative. I've recently started using UUIDv7 and it does have many advantages in comparison with UUIDv4. First of all, it's really fast (UUIDv7, with its time-ordered structure, claims to be 2-5x faster for inserts than UUIDv4). Writing records to the database has been a real pleasure. The insert performance and index maintenance are considerably faster. Second, it naturally sorts by creation time, wherea…  ( 12 min )

Switching from pnpm to npm while continuing with a monorepo (a system for managing multiple applications). The AWS Amplify CLI has long supported npm Workspaces, which is ideal for implementing monorepos. The goal is to unify the package manager to npm by creating a new package-lock.json in the project root and deleting pnpm-lock.yaml. node_modules Delete the pnpm-lock.yaml file in the root directory. → DONE Delete the node_modules directories in the root directory and in all app/package directories (workspaces). → DONE 2. Configure the Root package.json Migrate the pnpm configuration (usually found in pnpm-workspace.yaml) to the npm Workspaces configuration. Open the root package.json and add the "workspaces" field. → DONE 3. Reinstall Dependencies Execute the npm install command in the root directory to create a new package-lock.json. Run the following command in the root directory: Bash npm install An error occurred because all projects' package.json names were the same, which is not allowed (NG). I changed the names. The apparent rule is to write them like this when my-app is the parent: "@my-app/web-app". The migration from pnpm to npm is now temporarily complete. I used the following command to install Amplify: Bash npx @aws-amplify/backend-cli sandbox Note: It seems the command amplify sandbox does not work. Tomorrow, I will continue with the following: Bash npx ampx configure profile Input the AWS Access Key ID and AWS Secret Access Key.  ( 6 min )

Episode 10: 💥 Stop Going All-In and Getting Liquidated! Master Freqtrade's Capital Allocation to Survive Longer In Freqtrade, capital allocation is the foundation of all strategy operations. Whether in spot or futures trading, parameters like stake_currency, stake_amount, and tradable_balance_ratio determine the currency used per trade, the amount of funds allocated, and how account risk is controlled. Proper configuration ensures stable and safe strategy execution; poor setup can lead to order failures or liquidation, impacting live trading. 👉 Click to visit: https://www.itrade.icu Freqtrade beginner tutorials, real-world strategy guides, indicator breakdowns, and more — helping you master quant trading skills with ease! 🪙 stake_currency — The Trading Currency Used "s…  ( 9 min )

The software testing landscape is undergoing a seismic shift. As AI agents become increasingly sophisticated, QA teams have an unprecedented opportunity to augment their capabilities and deliver higher quality software faster. But the transition from manual testing to AI-assisted workflows can feel overwhelming. Why Make the Shift Now? Speed: CI/CD pipelines require instant feedback Coverage: Applications are too complex for purely manual validation Consistency: Human testers have off days; AI agents don't Scale: Testing across browsers, devices, and configurations is exponentially growing AI agents aren't here to replace testers—they're here to handle the repetitive work so you can focus on exploratory testing, edge cases, and strategic quality initiatives. Phase 1: Foundation (Days 1-30)…  ( 10 min )

A highly optimized role and permission package for Laravel 11/12 with advanced features including multiple guards, wildcard permissions, super admin, expirable permissions, expirable roles, and Laravel Gate integration. composer require saeedvir/laravel-permissions See Document Star This Package ✅ Role-based Access Control (RBAC) 🚀 Multiple Guards Support - Separate permissions for web, api, admin 🎯 Wildcard Permissions - Use posts.* to grant all post permissions 👑 Super Admin Role - Automatically has ALL permissions ⏰ Expirable Permissions - Set expiration dates on permissions ⏰ Expirable Roles - Set expiration dates on roles  ( 6 min )

"A good tester prevents problems; a great tester finds them." Keith Klain, Director of Quality Engineering at KPMG UK Four disabled tests. One cryptic comment: 'flaky.' When I dove into Keyshade's workspace role tests, I discovered the failures weren't random at all—they revealed a fundamental misunderstanding of how the API validates permissions. Keyshade is a modern solution for secure, centralized credential and configuration management, designed for developers, DevOps engineers, and open-source communities who need to manage secrets without the headache. #1122) I decided to continue my open source journey on Keyshade since my blog post going over how I solved issue 998, which was that the Keyshade command line interface’s “keyshade run” command fails to give a proper error that users…  ( 23 min )

LLMs Whispering Secrets: Vector Translation for AI Communication Imagine a world where AI agents can seamlessly collaborate, sharing complex ideas without the limitations of human-defined languages. What if they could bypass the clunky token-based communication we currently rely on and talk directly, mind-to-mind, in a shared understanding? This isn't science fiction; it's the potential of a new technique emerging in the world of large language models. The core idea is vector translation: creating a bridge between the internal representation spaces of different LLMs. Instead of translating text directly, we learn mappings that transform the semantic meaning encoded in one model's vectors into a form understandable by another. Think of it like teaching two people who speak completely diff…  ( 7 min )

Step 1: Creare la Shell Genera il progetto principale: ng new shell-app --routing --style=scss ng add @angular-architects/module-federation --type host --port 4200 webpack.config.js: const ModuleFederationPlugin = require("webpack/lib/container/ModuleFederationPlugin"); module.exports = { output: { publicPath: "http://localhost:4200/", uniqueName: "shell" }, optimization: { runtimeChunk: false }, plugins: [ new ModuleFederationPlugin({ name: "shell", remotes: { mfeProduct: "mfeProduct@http://localhost:4201/remoteEntry.js", mfeProfile: "mfeProfile@http://localhost:4202/remoteEntry.js" }, shared: { "@angular/core": { singleton: true, strictVersion: true }, "@angular/common": { singleton:…  ( 7 min )

Why 90% of AI Apps Fail to Monetize Effectively—and How Monetzly Can Change That As developers, we pour our hearts into building innovative AI applications, yet many of us face a harsh reality: 90% of AI apps fail to monetize effectively. Why? The answer lies in the monetization models that disrupt user experience and fail to offer sustainable revenue streams. Enter Monetzly—think of it as the Google Ads for AI conversations. The rapid growth of AI applications is exciting, but the challenge remains: how can we monetize without alienating our users? Traditional models often rely on subscriptions or paywalls, placing a burden on users and limiting our reach. Monetzly breaks this mold with a dual-earning platform that empowers developers to monetize their apps in two impactful ways: Direct…  ( 7 min )

💭 Dear Devs, Designers & Dreamers, There are moments in this journey when you realize — no one truly grows alone. Right now, I’m working on a digital printing and gallery website — something simple, but meaningful to me. It’s more than a project; it’s a reflection of growth, patience, and passion. But if I’ve learned anything, it’s that every great dev once stood where I’m standing. Unsure. Learning. Asking. So this is a call — not for validation, but for connection. Sometimes, a few honest words can light up someone else’s path — and that’s all I’m asking for today. Let’s rise together, not as individuals competing, but as creators learning from one another. 💙 Thanks to everyone who takes a moment to share a thought. It means more than you think. Developers #WebDevelopment #Inspiration #CodeNewbie #DevCommunity #GrowthMindset #LearnInPublic #DigitalPrinting #GalleryWebsite #TogetherWeGrow #TechJourney  ( 6 min )

始まり ある日、開発中の画面でサムネイル画像が不自然に引き伸ばされて表示されていることに気づきました。 「ああ、このパターンな。CSSのobject-fitがcoverになってるのをcontainにすれば直るやつじゃ」 そう高を括ってコードを修正。しかし、表示は変わらず引き伸ばされたまま。ブラウザの開発者ツールで画像のURLを直接開いてみると、Amazon S3から返されている画像そのものが既に引き伸ばされていました 「まじすか先輩」 しかし、わしはプロジェクトに参加したばかりでしかもインフラはよぉ知らん。該当の画像生成処理がどこに書かれているのか見当もつきませんので同僚に聞いてみましたわ 「すんまへん、このサムネイル画像、どうもAWS側でリサイズされてるっぽいんですが、どこの処理か分かりますか？」 すると、同僚から 「ああ、その処理は別のインフラ用リポジトリにあるLambda関数がやってるんですよ。ただ、そのリポジトリを直接編集しても意味なくて、今のアプリケーション用リポジトリにコードを移行して、CI/CDを再設定する必要があるんですわこりゃ」 わしの頭の中は「あーLambda聞いたことあるわー、awsのやつじゃわー」て感じでしたが、とりあえずやってみました。 これは「特定のイベントをきっかけに、自動で動いてくれる小さなプログラム」で、サーバーの管理を自分でする必要がない「サーバーレス」という仕組みの一つで、例えば以下のようなイベントをきっかけに処理を実行できます。 Amazon S3にファイルがアップロードされた時 API Gatewayにリクエストが来た時 特定の時間になった時 (cronのように) 今回のケースでは、「S3バケットにオリジナル画像がアップロードされたら、Lambda関数が起動してサムネイル画像を生成し、別のS3バケットに保存する」という処理が行わ…  ( 6 min )

Imagine you're running a restaurant kitchen. You have recipes (build targets), ingredients (source files), and some dishes that need other dishes to be ready first (dependencies). How do you organize this chaos? That's exactly what build systems like Bazel, Make, and our Mini-Bazel do for software. Picture this: You're making a sandwich. You need: Bread (must be toasted first) Butter (must be softened) Cheese (must be sliced) If the bread is already toasted from earlier, why toast it again? In our Mini-Bazel example: my_app is like the final sandwich utils.a is like the toasted bread (a prerequisite) The .go files are our raw ingredients // Let's break down our BUILD.mini file for everyone: /* Think of this as a recipe book where each recipe has: - A name (what we're making) - Instruc…  ( 7 min )

Title: The Rise and Fall of ChatGPT: A Tech-Savvy Perspective Introduction In the world of technology, artificial intelligence (AI) has been a topic of great interest and debate. One of the most popular AI tools available today is ChatGPT, a language model that has been praised for its ability to generate human-like responses to queries. However, as we have seen in recent news, the reliance on AI can sometimes lead to unexpected consequences. In this blog post, we will explore the rise and fall of ChatGPT, and what it means for the future of AI. The Rise of ChatGPT ChatGPT was first introduced by OpenAI, a leading AI research company, in November 2021. The tool quickly gained popularity among tech enthusiasts and professionals, thanks to its ability to generate human-like responses to qu…  ( 7 min )

The recent upgrade of our production Cloud SQL databases to Enterprise Plus required an in-place process to minimize downtime for our 2TB instance. This meant that we couldn't explore the new C4A ARM option offered under Enterprise Plus offers, as it currently does not support in-place upgrades (I am told Google is working on it though). Given how impressed I was when testing Google Axion-powered C4A GCP VMs, I thought I should explore the C4A Cloud SQL performance for initial use in our test environment, with an eye toward potential future production use. Enterprise Plus: C4A vs N2 Import Performance Latency Very fast (200ms) Very Slow (>20s) UPDATEs INSERTs DELETEs Addendum: Enterprise N4 Conclusions In my testing, the 4th gen C4A cores, based on Google's own …  ( 10 min )

Title: The Enduring Legacy of a Remarkable Man: George Raveling George Raveling was a man who defied the odds and left an indelible mark on the world. Born in segregated Washington in 1937, he and his family were second-class citizens, denied basic rights and dignities. However, this did not deter him from achieving greatness. At the age of nine, George's father died, leaving him and his mother to fend for themselves. To make matters worse, his mother was committed to an asylum when he was thirteen, effectively leaving him to grow up alone. Despite these challenges, George's resilience and determination shone through. It was during this time that George discovered his love for basketball. He was introduced to the sport by Father Jerome Nadine, a Catholic priest in Brooklyn who recognized…  ( 7 min )

✅ INTERVIEW MASTER SHEET (FULL ANSWERS READY TO SPEAK) 1) Tell Me About Your Role / Project Answer: I built a Profile Service application on AWS using EKS, DynamoDB, and Terraform. The application is a Python Flask API deployed on Kubernetes behind an AWS ALB. I used IRSA to allow the pods to securely access DynamoDB without storing any credentials. The entire infrastructure is provisioned using Terraform, and CI/CD is automated with GitHub Actions to build, test, and deploy changes. I enabled observability using Prometheus and Grafana and implemented DynamoDB Global Tables for multi-region active-active disaster recovery. This project demonstrates end-to-end DevOps and SRE practices including automation, security, scaling, monitoring, and reliability. Difference Between De…  ( 8 min )

Title: Unlock Your Potential with the Power of Wisdom Are you tired of feeling stuck in your personal or professional life? Do you want to reach your full potential but don't know how to get there? Look no further than my new book, Wisdom Takes Work. In this insightful guide, I share the lessons I've learned over the years, and how they can help you unlock your true potential. If you've been following my writing for any length of time, you know that I believe that wisdom is the key to success. And in Wisdom Takes Work, I explore what it means to truly be wise. I delve into the different types of wisdom, from practical knowledge to emotional intelligence, and show you how to cultivate each one. One of the most important things I've learned in my own journey is that wisdom is not something…  ( 7 min )

The industry's staunch ally (and sometimes business partner) in the White House has brought a flood of drama, both good and bad.  ( 36 min )

An appeals court seemed very skeptical of the FTX founder's push for a new trial.  ( 36 min )

As regulated futures proliferate across alts, the “long DAT, short futures” trade could become an ideal way for Wall Street to capture crypto yield without touching a wallet or suffering from the intense volatility that defines crypto as an asset class, argues CoinFund’s Chris Perkins.  ( 35 min )

Large bitcoin holders continue to offload as smaller investors accumulate, creating a stark divide in market behavior.  ( 30 min )

XRP's price action shows strong institutional interest, with significant volume increases and new wallet creations.  ( 32 min )

The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) has requested an official explanation from TikTok following reports that the platform was used to recruit individuals for international drug-smuggling operations. In a statement, it said the inquiry concerns TikTok’s internal mechanisms for monitoring and removing content or advertisements linked to criminal activity, including fake job postings that […] The post MCMC Probes TikTok Over Alleged Drug-Smuggling Recruitment appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 34 min )

The Chinese automaker, Xpeng has unveiled its new VLA 2.0 self driving system at the company’s AI day. Additionally, Volkswagen has been confirmed as the launch customer for the model and has also selected XPENG’s Turing AI chip for future applications. The system according to Xpeng, bypasses the traditional AI language processing method with its […] The post XPENG Unveils VLA 2.0 Self-Driving System With Volkswagen As First Global Partner appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 35 min )

Two weeks ago, we saw the announcement of the ASUS ROG Phone 9 series getting a Honkai Impact 3rd tie-in featuring Elysia. More recently, the company has announced that the result of the collab has landed on our shores. That being said, it looks like only the Pro model in the series is getting the […] The post ASUS ROG Phone 9 Pro Honkai Impact 3rd Comes To Malaysia appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 33 min )

The DJI Osmo Action 6 is the drone maker’s worst kept secret it seems. The action camera has been the subject of multiple leaks in the past couple of months. Now, ahead of its impending launch, more images depicting the device have emerged. One of these pictures shows what appears to be the casing for […] The post DJI Osmo Action 6 Leaks Again; Local Launch Teased appeared first on Lowyat.NET.  ( 34 min )

AI coding, vibe coding and agentic swarm have made a dramatic and astonishing recent market entrance, with the AI Code Tools market valued at $4.8 billion and expected to grow at a 23% annual rate.  Enterprises are grappling with AI coding agents and what do about expensive human coders.  They don’t lack for advice.  OpenAI’s CEO estimates that AI can perform over 50% of what human engineers can do.  Six months ago, Anthropic’s CEO said that AI would write 90% of code in six months.  Meta’s CEO said he believes AI will replace mid-level engineers “soon.” Judging by recent tech layoffs, it seems many executives are embracing that advice. Software engineers and data scientists are among the most expensive salary lines at many companies, and business and technology leaders may be tempted to r…

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